This project's objective is to provide 74 partner families with Healthy Home Kits, containing smokeless stoves, improved latrines and/or water filters in the coffee farming community of Finca Palmeiras, Villatoro and Las Palmas in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
On June 3rd 2018, the Fuego Volcano erupted in Guatemala, mainly affecting coffee regions. As a response to this volcano eruption and its consequences, we initiated a special emergency Volcano project together with Habitat for Humanity Guatemala (HFHG) to provide structural support for the families that needed to be re-allocated by contributing in the construction of their homes, bringing them hope for the future. The overall objective of this project is the assistance of coffee farming families affected by the volcano eruption in Valle de las Flores, Palin, Esquintla, Guatemala.
This project's objective is to promote wild coffee growing in the forest in Oromia, Ethiopia and to protect its area of origin.
This pilot project aims to offer a sustainable solution for Hunkute and Bokasso cooperatives in Sidama Zone, Wonsho Woreda, Ethiopia and beyond to the washing stations of the area.
This project's objective is to provide 100 small specialty coffee producers and their families in Northern Nariño in Colombia with improved organizational, business and management skills, a better market integration and effective advocacy for local coffee-market government policies, improved trading and business conditions, better access to coffee market information, and improved negotiation skills for green coffee marketing.
This project's objective is the improvement of overall living conditions and health of the Caserío El Bendito and Caserío Los Vásquez coffee community in Chiquimula, Guatemala by providing housing solutions and educational trainings.
This project seeks to educate a new generation of coffee entrepreneurs at Las Delicias School in Santander, Colombia. By providing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and education on sustainable coffee production according to the students' context and needs, children in coffee growing families at Puente Nacional are encouraged to remain in the rural areas to build a future with their families.
After hurricane ETA, a second hurricane IOTA (category 5 storm) hit Central America in November 2020. The combination of this recent emergency and the COVID-19 pandemic context increased the risk of the most vulnerable families. Besides infrastructure damage, this was a real concern just a few weeks before the coffee harvest season would kick in. The overall objective of this project is the assistance of 70 coffee farming families affected by the tropical storms in El Progreso, La Unión, Zacapa, Guatemala.
In recent years, access to financing for working capital has decreased and the effort that small producers have made to maintain their plantations and guarantee food for their families becomes increasingly difficult. This micro-credits project seeks to guarantee resources and financial products adjusted to the current capacity and situation, more commercialization at fair prices, including training for greater productivity on farms, directly benefiting 30 women smallholder coffeepreneurs in Jinotega, Nicaragua.
The overall objective of this project is to develop a unified, economically feasible model for certification = ALDEA Certification model, led by a network of 30 youngsters, all sons and daughters of coffee entrepreneurs and members of Aldea Global Cooperative. This will be a new, low cost model for certification that can be replicated in any other Latin American country.