About David Robinson
Harvesting History
 In
many ways, David Robinson has followed in his late father's
footsteps. But he was never a baseball player. David Robinson
sells coffee and lives in a place where no one even cares
about the New York Yankees.
Jackie Robinson, David's father, was one of the world's
greatest athletes. As the first African American in the Major
Leagues, his triumphs are well documented in books and film,
and in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame.
The unimaginable pressure that his father felt left an imprint
on a nation, and on David. It was character more than
catching, heroism more than hitting, that David felt the need
to live up to.
Into Africa
David's journey to create Sweet Unity Farms began long ago,
when David was trekking through Africa. Stirred by the beauty
and poverty there, he purchased land in Tanzania to start a
cooperative coffee farm.
His hope was to help local farmers join together to build a
thriving business. Now married with children and living in
Tanzania with his family, his goal is as large as the civil
rights struggle his father helped champion.
Growing Dignity
David is attempting to use his unique position to change the
way people in Tanzania live and work. He’s formed a
cooperative of approximately 650 small coffee farms which,
rather than selling its raw coffee to multinational buyers in
Tanzania, is marketing it directly in North America.
The name for this venture came as naturally as David's will to
lead it: Sweet Unity Farms. The collective, with David's
leadership, is creating a new model of progressive economic
development.
His work is transforming poverty into equality. Sweet Unity
Farms coffee now offers hope to a people, and carries on his
father’s legacy.
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