Lake Victoria Chocolate

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Antwerp
Lake Victoria Chocolate

Our aim is to work towards vertical integration, meaning from cocoa beans sourcing to chocolate manu We love chocolate. We really do.

In fact, we want to pass on that love to you by producing the world's finest chocolate Africa has to offer. Our cacao grows in the beautiful highlands of Tororo in East-Uganda next to our chocolate factory. Yes right, our chocolate is made in Uganda. We believe that the African soil and soul adds that extra flavour to the chocolate you love. Lake Victoria Chocolate is also crafted in the most sust

ainable and socially responsible way. Whenever you'll savour our chocolate you actually empower local communities in Uganda and contribute to sustainable growth. Our mission is to cultivate better livelihoods by investing in and managing of sustainable cocoa & chocolate business in low income countries. Our startegic objectives is to work towards vertical integration, meaning from cocoa beans sourcing to chocolate manufacturing, to control every step in the process, from the source to the end customer. We create good jobs and provide farmers and other suppy chain partners with a better income. Lake Victoria Chocolate's aim is to be a "partner in sustainable value creation" for local farmers and other supply chain partners.

01/02/2020

Front page news this weekend in Antwerp "Belgian entrepreneurs bring chocolate bars from Ugandan cocoa farmers on the market".

Read more: http://bit.ly/Artikel_GvA

Sam van Dyck, Saskia Beerts and Geert Serneels

12/01/2020

It was a very special moment when we handed-over one of our first chocolate 🍫 bars made in Uganda to John Yvan (73), the oldest cocoa farmer 👨🏿‍🌾 in Uganda 🇺🇬. We were very happy that we could realise his dream: making his own chocolate!

50 years ago he started his cocoa plantation 🌱, by now his plantation reaches 6,000 trees. Back then the government was encouraging farmers to diversify into production of cash crops other than cotton and coffee. He learned many farmers 👨🏿‍🌾 👨🏿‍🌾 👨🏿‍🌾 the skills to grow cocoa plantation. With the money he earned from the cocoa, he was able to send his children to university.

01/01/2020

2019 was an incredible year for us. We realised:
👨🏿‍🌾 First cocoa harvest
🌱 3 cocoa plantations
📚 Trained 20 farmers to make chocolate
🏭 Production of the first chocolate
🍫 Sold the first chocolate bars
📈 Distribution in 3 countries 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇺🇬

Curious what 2020 will bring, keep following us!

22/12/2019

Our chocolate 🍫 is produced by our cocoa farmers in small batches and sourced from small farms around our artisanal chocolate factory in Uganda 🇺🇬 . This allows us to follow the process from the cocoa tree 🌱 to the chocolate bar, all within the community and in support of sustainable farming practices, honoring the tradition of the chocolate making process with grace and integrity.

Do you like to taste our chocolate 🍫?
http://www.lakevictoriachocolate.com/tree-to-bar

15/12/2019

Our second cocoa plantation is located in Mount Elgon in East Uganda 🇺🇬. The highly fertile volcanic mountain ⛰ gives the perfect soil and climate for cocoa to grow. The 100 cocoa trees 🌱 that we planted in 2017 are very well maintained by Peter Mukono, one of our cocoa farmers, and his wife. This plantation gives us direct access to 3,000 cocoa trees and indirect access to 6,000 cocoa farmers.

Do you want to help to grow our cocoa plantation?
www.lakevictoriachocolate.com/donate

Thanks Sam Van Dyck, Saskia Beerts and Geert Serneels to help establishing this plantation.

08/12/2019

Thanks Julie Plaitin to visit our cocoa plantation with your mother. This means a lot to the cocoa farmers. They really enjoyed your visit!

Let us know if you want to visit also our cocoa plantation 🌱 and see how we make chocolate 🍫?

www.lakevictoriachocolate.com

03/12/2019

Throwback to last week. We organised a chocolate workshop in Uganda 🇺🇬 for the cocoa farmers. We trained 20 farmers, of which 50% women and 50% men, to make their very own chocolate! We learned them all the steps from roasting and grinding the cocoa beans to the conching the chocolate. The final step was the tempering and molding of the chocolate 🍫.

At the end they could enjoy their very own chocolate 🍫 and a hot chocolate drink!!! 😋

The team is very excited to start making more chocolate 🍫...

02/12/2019

Time to harvest!!! ✔️
We are sooo... exited to see the first cocoa fruits on our cocoa plantation 🌱 🌱 🌱 in Uganda 🇺🇬. We started the plantation in 2015. We can’t wait to make chocolate 🍫 with our very own cocoa...

28/11/2019

We start our chocolate journey in Kampala at the ICU Guesthouse. Our cocoa seedlings that we planted 2 years ago have grown very fast... maybe the chickens helped???

26/11/2019

What’s better than starting the day in Uganda...with a coffee and a chocolate 🍫! Ready for our chocolate journey...

11/11/2019

Yes, we made our first successful test batch of chocolate bars 🍫! Ready to upscale and train the cocoa farmers 🌱 in two weeks in Uganda 🇺🇬. Read more: https://bit.ly/32tdfxu

12/05/2019

🍫Making chocolate in the middle of the rainforest of Costa Rica 🇨🇷! Jorge Salazar and his sister Mariana gave us a tour at their family cocoa plantation of 3 generations. It is very impressive to see how they started making chocolate from tree to bar and created La Iguana Chocolate. We tasted the ancient chocolate drink from the indigenous. We created some truly unique truffles and chocolate bars from 100% their cocoa beans and chocolate. Their mother treated us with the best homemade chocolate brownie I ever tasted! A very similar story as Lake Victoria Chocolate...

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