Upper Bulambuli Old Persons Association
Bulambuli

The association was established in 2018 by a group of retired civil servants with the intention to secure their livelihoods through coffee farming. The association has 35 member families and a board that comprises the chairman, the secretary, a treasurer and a loan officer. A portion of their sales is kept to offer loans to members who want to develop their businesses, such as planting cash crops like onions, Irish potatoes, matooke etc. All of them have coffee farms as the main source of income. The farms are located in Upper Bulambuli District in the Mount Elgon region at an altitude of 2,000 – 2,100 m.a.s.l. The families usually keep 2-3 cows for milk as well as goats and chicken for manure which they use as fertilizer in the farms, in addition to other waste products. The assoociation works in patnership with Bariguna that supports them and encourages them to improve coffee processing in order to reach the required standard to qualify for specialty coffe