This project's aims to foster capacity building, peaceful coexistence and income generation for 100 youngsters and their families.
LEOLINDA: IMPROVING WATER CONSERVATION AND LIVING CONDITIONS IN COCOA PRODUCTION
This project's aim is to upgrade social and environmental standards in the Uruçuca region, Bahia, by investing in basic services for employees, addressing water conservation needs at farm-level, and through capacity building on socio-environmental issues.
ECOLOGICAL COFFEE PRODUCTION
This project's aim is to implement sustainable, ecological, smallholder coffee production in the Bolivian Province of Ichilo in order to generate regional, economic and social growth.
PROMOTING ORGANIC COFFEE AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PRE-PROCESSING
This project's aim is to help Bolivian Rural Economic Organizations become sustainable development contributors in the area by equipping two of them with coffee processing plants, as well as a wastewater purification system for each plant.
WORKER RIGHTS (PALLIRIS) IN COFFEE FARMS
This project aims at improving working conditions for Palliris women involved in the coffee bean selection and to hold educational workshops on human rights.
RAINFOREST ALLIANCE CERTIFICATION COFFEE CROPS
This project aims at providing training for 188 coffee farmers living in the Amboro National Park buffer zone through productive adaptation and organizational strengthening to certify the first Rainforest Alliance Bolivian coffee.
A NEW GENERATION OF COFFEE ENTREPRENEURS
In several regions in Santander, Colombia, the project aims to provide better better perspectives for the young coffee growers community. 150 young coffee growers will become regional and national models of rural entrepreneurship. 150 coffee plantations will stand out for their profitability and sustainability and will be known as 'model coffee farms'.
IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF DRINKING WATER
In Jinotega, Matagalpa, Boaco, Nueva Segovia and Esteli the project aims to distribute water filters and provide drinking water to women as an initiative of women helping other women. Safe and clean drinking water prevents a lot of diseases so the Women’s Coffee Alliance wants to encourage the women to use the filters given as a preventive tool of infection diseases.
MICRO-CREDITS
In Matagalpa and Jinotega we support Lending credits to members of Cecocafen. Credit and saving funds are managed by women in their organizations. (Board of Directors, composed of three democratically elected women.) Women are trained on how to keep records (manage) and register credits and savings.
COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION PROJECT
In Matagalpa and Jinotega in Nicaragua, we support grant scholarships to children from coffee farmers in nine cooperatives. Cecocafen scholarship program has given access to education to many young boys and girls. In return, Cecocafen asks scholarship students to get involved in their cooperatives.