More than coffee —
a mission.

The Tabar bean is an Arabica grown on the volcanic highlands of Kivu, between 1,500 and 2,000 metres of altitude, in the Kivu and Ituri regions. Soils enriched by active volcanoes, equatorial Great Lakes climate, ancestral know-how of the growers — everything comes together to produce beans of exceptional aromatic complexity: fruity, lively, balanced.

The beans are then artisanally roasted in Uganda — where our founder, a Congolese refugee, built his artisanal craft — and then shipped to Canada in small batches. Every step of this chain is documented, with no speculative intermediary, so that value flows directly back to those who bring the coffee to life.

Choosing a Tabar coffee also means choosing preserved freshness: our batches reach Canada in less than ten days after roasting, so every cup fully reveals the aromatic potential of the Congolese bean and the artisanal signature of the Ugandan roaster.

Africa has a large and football-passionate youth, while in Uganda, more than two million refugees use sport as a source of hope, resilience and daily integration.

For more than a decade, our leader and his organization Self-made Africans have trained thousands of young refugees inside the Kyaka II camp — not only through agriculture and cinema, but also through sport, education and community leadership.

Through Tabar Café, we build a bridge between Africa and Canada around Canadian soccer and the Canadian Premier League (CPL), already followed by a deeply engaged African youth. In the long run, these bridges will open concrete opportunities: internships, intercultural exchanges, integration programs for newcomers to Canada.

On the ground, at the Kyaka II refugee camp in Uganda, the Self-made Africans organization has led since 2020 several concrete projects in water purification, reforestation and sustainable agriculture, with the support of partners like Alight Ripple Effect.

The « The Let Be One Show » project notably distributed vegetable seeds to more than 5,000 people within the camp and local Ugandan communities — to strengthen food security and agricultural self-sufficiency in the face of shortages.

In a sustainable vision, refugee producers have decided to allocate 20% of profits from coffee imported to Canada to planting peace trees. On the Canadian side, we favour responsible packaging and an optimized logistics route. Every tree planted, every seed distributed, every initiative is publicly documented on the Self-made Africans YouTube channel.

Our work relies on the collaboration of renowned institutional partners — UNHCR, Office of the Prime Minister (Uganda), World Food Programme, International Rescue Committee, Mastercard Foundation, STV Uganda, Caritas and Alight Ripple Effect — who have accompanied our leader and his organization Self-made Africans through more than a decade of humanitarian engagement in East Africa.

We also organize collections of used items to give them a second life for the benefit of refugees living in Uganda: sports equipment, clothing, shoes, electronics and any other reusable item.

When you choose Tabar Café, you become the final link in a fully documented chain: from the refugee producer at the Kyaka II camp to your cup in Montreal. Our role is not to replace local actors but to amplify them — every purchase, every gift, every share helps keep this mission alive.