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IWD 2023: NWCA Ltd educates coffee sorters on online safety

By Bakah Derick  Rita is amongst over 50 persons who report to work at the North West Cooperative Association (NWCA) Ltd every work day to pick dried coffee cherries. She has been doing this for years after she arrived Bamenda from Boyo Division, of the North West Region. Rita has been displaced by the over six years raging armed conflict like many of her coffee picking colleagues. She has been doing this for over four years now and this has become a major source of livelihood.  Some NWCA Ltd female staff picking coffee  "Before God, this has been helping me alot. Just that when we look at the money with the crisis and the prices in the market you just feel like all is not fine but at least something is turning in your pockets and we do not only depend on people but we can do a few things on our own." Rita shares her experience with www.hilltopvoices.com.  Their job is about selecting the best coffee beans for processing. They ensure no foreign object or bad beans