Zesui is the name of a mountain peak of the Elgon range. The women farmers are members of a Kalaa Mugosi, a small local organization set up to promote women’s empowerment through economic independence. Kalaa Mugosi means “breaking the ropes” in Bugisu language and is helping women to sever the ropes of poverty and dependence through coffee farming. The farms are located at the slopes of Zesui mountain at altitudes between 1750 and 2100 and the varietal here is predominantly Nyasaland. Many of these farms are extremely remote and the coffee cherries have to be carried first to the nearest trading center before they can be transported to the compound of the founder of Kalaa Mugosi, in Busiita village.