Karma Drinks (organic cola to fund local farmers)

Karma Drinks sell organic cola drinks made with real cola nuts, which pays a fair price to growers in Sierra Leone (Africa) and donates 1% of every drink sold goes to kola-nut growing communities in West Africa. It’s cola with a conscience!

Avoid caffeine for pregnancy/nursing.

The sodas are sold in glass bottles (easily recycled, remove and recycle metal lids separately) or aluminium cans, a material that is easily recycled and sold at low cost to industry, as it does not really lose quality. This also saves up to 95% water on making new aluminium (which then also does not have to be mined).

You can even set up an aluminium can and foil recycling scheme, and raise money for community projects, by selling the cans back to industry.

Before recycling, pop ring-pulls back over holes (and pinch or flatten top) to stop wildlife getting trapped. It’s also good to give cans a quick rinse to remove scents of sugary liquids.

By empowering the eight communities that grow this brand’s kola nuts, it’s helping to protect over 1200 hectares of rainforest, which endangered species call home (11 primates, countless birds and at least 123 plant species that thrive in the canopy).

For each case sold on the website, the company partners with One Tribe, to plant 25 trees in the Amazon rainforest, also home to many endangered plants, birds, animals and marine species.

European production has now moved from Austria to Somerset, cutting over 78,000 kilometres of travel, and providing local jobs.

Profits to Sierra Leone farmers have helped to build new classrooms (and to prepare broken pumps so villages have clean safe drinking water).

Cola’s a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet almost none use real kola nuts now. This means the West Africans, who first cultivated the kola nut, receive no benefit. We wanted to change that. Founder of Karma Drinks

All these drinks are sweetened with natural cane sugar (all are organic apart from the sugar-free cola which is sweetened with stevia and erythritol).