Join us as we work with New Guinea Traders on a BOOK DRIVE for Schools in the coffee growing region of Papua, New Guinea!

New Guinea Traders, LLC, one of the direct trade coffee growers through whom we buy green coffee, is holding a book drive for their Origin Education Project, which brings books and reading instruction to the women and children in the Madan Estate region.

They will be sending a container full of easy reading and children’s books, encyclopedias and magazines to Papua, New Guinea in January of 2010. And we’re trying to help fill it! 

If you want to join in the Book Drive, drop your books at Three Cups Coffee House in the front end of our building (279 W. Marine Drive, Astoria, Oregon), or send the books to NGT directly, at: 166 Summerside Drive, Centralia, WA 98531.

If you’re interested in helping out with your own book drive, give us a call at 503-325-2755 or email us and we will help you get set up!  We will be picking up books along our delivery route for safekeeping until NGT’s container is ready to go in January.

“The encyclopedias will be for the local schools,” says company co-founder and Managing Director Aarlie Hull. “I would love to get at least 50 sets so we could put them in each classroom. The easy reading books are for the women to practice reading and in the process their little children will be read to.”

The mission of New Guinea Traders is to partner with indigenous Papua New Guinea landholders (tribes and clans) to produce, process, and market high quality coffee, and to continually look for other ways to improve the lives of its workers and their families with projects such as new water wells, clinics and schools.

“Our goal is to set up a library near the medical clinic.” Hull is enthusiastic: “This will be a continuing project. Books, books, books…. They are nonexistent in the rural areas of PNG.” And together, we can do something about it.

“You can drop bombs, hand out condoms, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.”  from Three Cups of Tea, by veteran, climber and philanthropist Greg Mortenson