Out of Peru comes a story of strength, unity and hope. A new specialty coffee, Café Femenino, has evolved. It is changing the role of women in remote rural coffee communities.
Despite numerous advances in many parts of the world, the marginalization and oppression of women still occurs, especially in areas of extreme poverty. Because specialty coffee is grown on mountains, the typical coffee communities are located in remote areas. This isolation contributes to a high rate of abuse and abandonment of women.
Café Femenino, a social program for women coffee growers in rural communities around the world, began with 464 women coffee farmers, but the number of women involved with the project has doubled and is continuing to grow. An extra premium is paid over the fair trade price with the additional funds paid directly to the women. This program is giving them their own money for the first time in their lives.
With the help of organic and Fair Trade premiums, much progress has been made in recent years to improve life in the expanding number of rural coffee growing communities. Improvements range from better diets, improved sanitation, new wet-processing mills and many, many miles of new roads.
S&D Coffee is proud to support the Cafe Femenino Foundation through programs like Faces, a foundation that performs cleft palate surgeries, burn surgeries and work done on other operable tumors or diseases that could be repaired or helped. S&D provided funds to help provide transportation and housing for parents of children that were helped by the work of the FACES Foundation.
To learn more about the Cafe Femenino Foundation please visit www.coffeecan.org.
Despite numerous advances in many parts of the world, the marginalization and oppression of women still occurs, especially in areas of extreme poverty. Because specialty coffee is grown on mountains, the typical coffee communities are located in remote areas. This isolation contributes to a high rate of abuse and abandonment of women.
Café Femenino, a social program for women coffee growers in rural communities around the world, began with 464 women coffee farmers, but the number of women involved with the project has doubled and is continuing to grow. An extra premium is paid over the fair trade price with the additional funds paid directly to the women. This program is giving them their own money for the first time in their lives.
With the help of organic and Fair Trade premiums, much progress has been made in recent years to improve life in the expanding number of rural coffee growing communities. Improvements range from better diets, improved sanitation, new wet-processing mills and many, many miles of new roads.
S&D Coffee is proud to support the Cafe Femenino Foundation through programs like Faces, a foundation that performs cleft palate surgeries, burn surgeries and work done on other operable tumors or diseases that could be repaired or helped. S&D provided funds to help provide transportation and housing for parents of children that were helped by the work of the FACES Foundation.
To learn more about the Cafe Femenino Foundation please visit www.coffeecan.org.
