Vava Angwenyi is the Founder & Chief Coffaholic – Vava Coffee, IVLP Alumni. Angwenyi has dedicated her time and energy to building her own coffee company, Vava Coffee. For a long time colleagues in the industry did not take her seriously and assumed she would give up the ‘hobby’ after a few months and get a ‘proper job’.
Education
Vava holds a Master’s degree-MSc in International Finance and Management from University of Groningen as well as Certificate in Global Asset Management from Warrington College of Business, University of Florida and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics & Actuarial Science from University of Western Ontario- Canada.
Vava Angwenyi Career
Vava Angwenyi started VAVA COFFEE in 2009 .Ms. Vava Angwenyi has created a sustainable and ethical coffee brand that sources coffee from farmers in Kenya and around the region .Most recently she has gained recognition from the U.S. Small Business Administration, Young Innovators in Agribusiness, and the UNDP’s Business Call to Action.
Vava is a CQI trained and qualified Q grader – course and exam taken October 2016 at Atlas Coffee Seattle. Ms. Vava Angwenyi was part of the 2015 African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program, a prestigious Department of State-sponsored program coordinated in conjunction with African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) and International Visitors Leadership Program.
Vava Coffee Limited
Vava Coffee is a Kenyan social enterprise started by Vava J, a Kenyan woman passionate about all things coffee. At Vava Coffee, we produce, package and sell high quality Kenyan coffees in Kenya and around the world. As a boutique Kenyan coffee company, we work directly with small holder coffee farmers, women and youth from informal settlements in Nairobi, creating high quality products ranging from our coffees, tote bags and other related coffee accessories.
Vava Angwenyi
Through engaging and training marginalized community members to become suppliers within our supply chain, we are providing them an opportunity to move out of poverty and take a step, maybe a first step, on their path towards self-sufficiency.
Vava Coffee identified a problem in the Kenyan coffee industry where Kenya’s small holder coffee farmers produce generally great beans, but amongst every great harvest there lies truly exceptional beans; some of the best in the world. Rather than letting these exceptional beans get lost amongst the average beans Vava Coffee extracts these directly from the farmer and gives the farmer an above market price for them. We get superior coffee, the farmer gets a higher price where deserved.
Vava Angwenyi Awards
In February 2014, Vava Coffee won a marketing challenge organized by the Fair Trade Organization in conjunction with Progresso International for having come up with the best idea of how a business can set up a value chain that benefits the small holder farmer.
In December 2013, Angwenyi was named one of Kenya’s 50 most successful and influential business people by the Msafiri magazine. Also in December 2013, she received the Pillar Awards Africa – entrepreneur category.
In 2011, Vava Coffee was nominated as one of the top 12 social enterprises worldwide by the BBC program World Challenge.
In 2009, Angwenyi herself was named to Business Daily Africa’s top 40 under 40 women in 2009.
Angwenyi was awarded the Young Alumni Award in the 2014 Western Alumni Awards of Merit.
Vava Angwenyi Family, Husband and Children
Vava Angwenyi is not married but she is a mother of one.
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