The u.s. Is the world's second biggest importer of coffee.
It is a very labor intensive. Crop
can take three to four years for a plant to Bear. The kind of fruit.
We would roast and grind,
but the two people typically paid, the least in the chain are the farmer.
And the Barista learning about coffee is about learning where your dollar goes.
We follow one of those chains from Michigan to Yemen.
Hello. Hey, how are you?
Would you recommend today? You wanted something with cream and night cream,
cream. Those go with them.
So, everything for here, right? Yes, sir.
A human has, a bunny is a coffee Mogul in making
in 2017. He opened his first shop in Dearborn,
and is now branching out to two locations.
One across town and another in New York.
He's not selling your average American style. Filtered coffee, though.
It has two bunnies. Coffee beans are from Yemen.
Good guys.
Thank you. We gonna make one son and one juvenile.
Okay, Wilson, and I'm going to use the medium roast with the
Mm. Mm, for the Jubilee we use. Light roast, medium, roast,
coffee house, Ginger. Cinnamon. Cardamom God. It's like
special mix. So, this is like the gateway drug into Yemen. Yes.
It's like Bridge doesn't have sugar, but yemeni coffee is famous.
It has natural Sweetness in it
and I take my coffee with sugar every morning, but I can drink this without sugar,
good.
That's to gonna change your mind.
These coffee beans are sweeter because they're grown in the highest mountainous.
Regions of the country.
Why is coffee so important for um, flaming first is our culture.
We drink coffee everyday.
It's also open Yemen to the other countries.
So when they start shipping to different countries people, they
read more about Yemen, they want to visit them.
And they want to see what's different about you, man.
How old were you? When you had your first cup of coffee?
So my mom, she told me when I was a kid,
I had two things coffee and a spicy. Since the, if the
Something wrong with this baby. Yemen, may have been the first to drink coffee,
nearly a thousand years ago, when it exported it, out of a famous Port called mocha,
but, colonialism conflict and the rising popularity of coffee crops.
Elsewhere, overtook it
and has a bunny left home in 2011, but his brother still back in her has
running the family's coffee Farm. Hello.
Hello salaam alaikum.
Huh?
Look.
How did she get in trouble? They'll try to give me a hug
and it's almost 45 years,
a rebel militia based in the north. The houthis has been fighting with a coalition
backed by the Saudis for control.
The Coalition blocked. Most imports from coming in
and the fighting has made life in the Region's poorest country.
Hell more than 100,000 people have died so far.
From airstrikes famine and rampant disease
and exporting. Anything amid. All of this chaos is sometimes, impossible.
It's cheaper to attempt this only once a year
and the only way to keep the beans fresh is to roast and grind them in the US.
You must really believe in this yemeni coffee. Yes, first, I believe in our brand,
I believe, in our yemeni coffee beans, as one of the best companies in the world.
Also, I believe in myself.
I didn't listen to anyone. I just said
I spend all saving, I have 41k, a break it down. I guess I use it.
I use all my credit card. I use all the money I have.
So everybody will be your crazy
when people first hear the word Yemen, they think of a current War.
Bloodshed,
but to you, Yemen, signifies something else. It's not in my life.
It's my birth place.
I stopped watching news, actually, especially ones come to him. And it's just said,
I'm fired right here, and I can't do nothing.
It's just, I can't control my emotion. I can't control myself.
It's bothering me from inside.
Oh, my family. So there I have my sister said she was sick
and because it was no hospital in here, man. It is no doctors normal said
she was away in the way and because
they take her to the hospital and they said, they didn't do nothing for her.
So they send her back home and she get worse.
They take her back to the hospital. She didn't make it.
Do you ever feel guilty
that you're here and there? They're back in a war zone.
Sometimes I feel guilty because I'm not next to them. Family is very important.
Other side, when I found not guilty because
at least I'm here to support them to help them.
If all of us stuck there, you don't know what's going to happen.
What are your hopes for a better? You
this war has to end.
This is first second. We have to be all yemeni together.
What are you thinking about? I just wanna get emotional.
That's why I'm yeah.
It just said I was crazy about me.
When I remember those people as Nana, they fight. It's not just,
it's really bad.
Okay, if we're not, not gonna do nothing, nothing gonna change.