Our story starts with our mum living on the foothills of mount Rwenzori called Biira Safali Naume who was a peasant and hard-working lady. She used to make juice out of Musa banana plantain using traditional method of squeezing the plantain to get sweet juice. The juice was sold in different local markets every Wednesday and Saturday in order to get a living and also fees for the 5 children. It was hectic work because sometimes the musa banana could not ripe or they could go bad counting losses. selling juice during bad weather (cold climate) one could count losses because customers could drink it during dry season. The juice was so sweet like honey and most of the customers used to call Hannie juice.
she was a very kind lady who used to help the very poor women in the village with food whenever she harvests her beans, cassava, maize, potatoes, onions, matooke, groundnuts, millet etc.
Unfortunately, the old mum died of cancer before all children graduating. We had to move on to the legacy of Hannie juice buy making chocolate since cocoa is gown on mount Rwenzori where our mum lived and this resulted into introduction of Hannie chocolate as a brand name. Due to climate change, banana plantains have been affected by banana wilt.
This was the Beginning of Hannie chocolate representing the Honey juice of the old lady used to sale. Hannie is now used as the brand name of Hannie chocolate .