Growing the future

We grow coffee ánd the future of our communities.

At Bette Buna, we believe even the most challenged rural communities can transform their own future when opportunity meets courage and effort. Specialty coffee is just the tool we use to make that change visible.

Together with our community of Taferi Kela, we are building a living example of what’s possible: productive farms, confident farmers, restored hope and new opportunities for the next generation. A place where knowledge is shared, businesses grow, and people take control of their own future.

This is not theory. This is something you can see, taste, and be part of.

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Who we are

Bette Buna is an international specialty coffee company, growing, producing, and exporting directly from Ethiopia to roasters around the world.

We take specialty coffee seriously and we take people even more seriously. Every decision is guided by a simple principle: put people first. Farmers, youth, communities and our team. We partner with importers and roasters who share our values, ensuring that every lot reaches destination with care, consistency, and traceability.

Our growing team is diverse, highly skilled, and experienced across farming, processing, quality control, and the specialty coffee market. We are motivated, ego-free, and driven to share knowledge and build opportunities. Giving our partners confidence that every lot is handled with expertise and purpose.

At Bette Buna, specialty coffee is more than a tasty quality product. It’s a tool to turn knowledge into action, effort into change, and farms into living classrooms. Every lot tells a story of skill, care, and transformation. For the people who grow it, and for the roasters who serve it.

Dawit & Hester, founders of Bette Buna

Why we started

Bette Buna was founded in 2020 by Hester, from the Netherlands, and her husband Dawit, from Ethiopia. From the very beginning, it was about more than coffee; it was about potential. Hester has always been a dreamer, seeing possibilities where others see limitations, while Dawit is more of a strategic realist, grounding vision in practical steps. Together, they share a belief in people’s potential, balancing imagination with strategy. Early on, they noticed how easily people, especially those overlooked or underestimated, were judged too quickly, and how small changes in guidance, opportunity, and belief could transform lives.

Since 2009, almost two decades in Ethiopia, they have been creating opportunities, mentoring communities, and building systems that empower people to take control of their future. They learned that real change does not come from charity alone, but from creating structures where people can learn, experiment, and grow their skills. Coffee became the tool to make that transformation visible, connecting farmers, communities, and global markets while embedding learning, experimentation, and ownership at every step.

Bette Buna is the result of this philosophy in action. It is a project designed to open doors, build capacity, and show what is possible when potential is recognized and facilitated. Hester and Dawit believe in giving opportunities, but they also believe in hard work. When opportunity comes, it is the duty of those who receive it to grab it with both hands. Success does not come by luck; it is earned through effort, determination, and persistence. Every trained farmer, every empowered community member, every lot of coffee represents a chance realized.

Bette Buna is still growing. Every step embodies the belief that change is possible when potential is seen before it is obvious, and when that belief is paired with courage, collaboration, and relentless effort. This is why Bette Buna was started: to build something where both coffee and people can grow, where hope, skill, and opportunity meet, and where the community itself becomes a model for what is possible.

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