Popular highway caf charts green path as investors step in

EsQoffee co-founder Wang'ombe Ng'ang'a. [Courtesy]

Mr Ng'ang'a now says that as the country gears towards hosting the inaugural Africa Climate Change Summit in September, the green cafe is silently driving green growth and climate solutions in Africa through its establishment and container cafe along the Great Rift Valley escarpment viewpoint.

"For a long time, the cafe has been in darkness and resulted in using fossil fuel as a way to sustain the business, with a daily usage of 20 litres of petrol to run a generator-operated cafe," he said.

"This has not only made operations expensive and unsustainable, but a great menace to the environment and that has been a great motivation towards their renewed strategy to move towards sustainability."

The firm has recently developed a solar-powered coffee cafe with 24-hour operations being driven by this important cost reduction and power availability as it aims to attract local and international coffee lovers using major highways in the Rift Valley.

"We are providing solutions that are adoptable across Africa and beyond, with coffee being the common denominator in their project," said Ng'ang'a, with the cafe having since expanded to the Mai Maahiu route.

The solar-driven cafe attracts local and international coffee Lovers plying major highways in the Rift. Their strong language on climate action is currently at the centre stage and have invited the world for a cup of Kenyan Green Coffee made through sustainable renewable energy at their Cafe.

The Popular highway cafe, with a recycled but creatively designed 40-feet container that supports zero waste management, targets travellers traversing to the Maasai Mara, Narok, Naivasha and Nakuru.

Ng'ang'a adds that with freshly roasted coffee, the breathtaking views of the Great Rift Valley have for a long time been under-utilised with souvenirs and African art and craft as major businesses across the attractive viewpoints of a major tourist corridor in Africa.

The stopover cafe, integrates a signature coffee experience with the vast Rift Valley Escarpment viewpoint, 8000ft above sea level, overlooking Mt. Longonot, Mt Margaret, Suswa, Mai Mahiu-Narok road.