Undiscovered Rochester Hills Coffee Shop Serves Up Caffeine for a Cause
Chances are you've driven by Kibo Corner coffee cafe hundreds of times; here's why, next time, you should stop in.
Inside a former instrument storage room on the campus of Rochester College, a small cup of dark roast coffee is helping to make a big difference. With the help of a few dedicated volunteers, the storage room inside the college's student center has been transformed into a working coffee shop. Called Kibo Corner Coffee Cafe, it features coffee and espresso drinks, hot chocolate and tea. The coffee shop is named for the highest point in Africa, the peak of Mt Kilimanjaro. All of its proceeds support development projects in East Africa. But to those who grind and brew the beans each morning, the story is much bigger than coffee. Kibo Corner is open from 7:30-11 a.m. every weekday. It's located inside the college's Ham Library building on …
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Lance Newsom
4:59 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
I can vouch for the good coffee as well as the great work Kibo does in Uganda. I just returned from a 2 week trip of my own immersed in Kibo and Jinja. Buy the coffee but, more importantly, ask questions about what Kibo is doing in the world. more ›