A long 15km stretch of dirt road runs between the Long Miles Bukeye Washing Station and Giku Hill. To get here you must cross two rivers and pass through two provincial borders. Although there are many small rivers that flow through this region, the communities living here have little access to clean drinking water and are very far from the reach of electricity. Coffee is the most important crop grown on the hill, closely competing with maize and beans. The fringes of the Kibira forest, Burundi's only indigenous rainforest, are glimpsed 54km away.

This is the first year that natural process microlots are being produced on Giku Hill. It has been challenge after challenge trying to bring a washing station closer to Giku. Coffee farming families in this region have delivered their cherries to the Bukeye washing station or the nearest Long Miles collection point for years, often traveling more than 3 hours on foot to reach these sites.

Starting to build Ninga, Long Miles Coffee's third washing station, coffee growers will bring the day's cherry harvest by walking or cycling to the Ninga washing station. During the natural process, coffee cherries are floated and hand-sorted, then taken directly to drying tables. The whole coffee cherry spends 25-30 days drying with its skin, slowly changing from a deep red to a purple-black color similar to a prune when fully dry, reaching the desired moisture level of 10.5%.

Salvator is one of the Coffee Scouts who works alongside coffee farming families on Giku Hill. He has been empowering farmers with sustainable agricultural practices, helping them understand the importance of planting shade trees, growing green manures, mulching their land, and pruning coffee trees seasonally. During the coffee harvest, he is by the farmers' side, guiding them through the cherry picking process.