Quality Coffee Bringing Equality to Life  For a limited time, we’re offering three coffees from Café Femenino, a social program for women coffee growers that grow, harvest and process their own high-quality, organic coffee. Organic Brazil, Mexican Light (SOLD OUT) and Mexican Dark (SOLD OUT)

CAFE FEMENINO COFFEE PROJECT 

Launched in 2004, the Café Femenino Coffee Project is a social program for women coffee growers in rural communities around the world. The only program of its kind today, it originated in Peru with more than 450 women coffee growers from 50 communities that came together to achieve independence and equality through the production and sale of their own coffee, Café Femenino. Today, the project has expanded to six countries involving over 750 women: Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Bolivia.

This project enables women coffee producers – many of whom are trapped in a cycle of abuse and poverty – to achieve empowerment, build social and support networks, and earn incomes through harvesting and producing their own special, high-quality organic coffees.

The program asks that a portion of the proceeds from all roasters be donated to a women’s crisis organization and/or to the Café Femenino Foundation. In our case, for every pound we sell on the website the Women’s Resource Center in Astoria will receive $1.00.

SOME INDUSTRY STATISTICS

• Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world next to oil.

• Approximately 75 percent of the world’s coffee is grown by approximately 25 million small coffee farmers working on just one to five acres of land. 30% of these farmers are women.

• Specialty coffee is one of the highest profile products in the North American market today.

• Thirty percent of the women that produce Café Femenino have been abandoned or are widows.

The initial Café Femenino coffee project was created in Peru through the vision and support of an alliance of organizations: Organic Products Trading Company developed the project for the CECANOR cooperative, along with the direction of Proassa and Cicap. The pre-financing for this project was provided by Cordaid.

Café Femenino Coffee Project: Order some today!

Photos courtesy of Cafe Femenino

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