Better java
Thanks to a generous donation from the Honeoye Falls-Mendon Rotary club in upstate New York (and my hometown) and through the sales of baskets handmade by the Fuente de Pino women’s cooperative in El Sauce at my photo exhibit, the Friends Project has helped farmers in El Sauce better provide for their families and refine their coffee-growing endeavors.
Friends Project donations in 2010 helped the coffee farmers purchase a low-cost manpowered foot pump, which allows them to bag their own coffee to sell to tourists. Producing the coffee in a very traditional, artisan way, this means they grow, roast and do it all by hand. The $100 Rotary donation and some $100 in basket sales allowed the farmers to purchase a small toaster, which allows them to toast coffee beans a bit more efficiently. They were doing it pan by pan over a fire.
Every sale, the cooperative members invest part of their small profits back into the cooperative, to obtain more bags and help grow the initiative.
Pics to come!
Emiliano's coffee plantation in Nicaragua.
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