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- EIN 05-0442372
- 505 820-1443
- 1751 Old Pecos Trail Ste K Santa Fe NM 87505 USA
- http://www.coffeekids.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Economic Development, Food, Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, International, International Development, Philanthropy
Mission: Since 1988, Coffee Kids has been helping coffee-farming families improve the quality of their lives.
Coffee Kids cultivates partnerships with local, grass roots organizations operating in coffee-growing countries and together, we create sustainable projects that provide education and training opportunities, health awareness, economic diversification. and food security.
Coffee Kids believes that people in coffee-growing communities hold the solutions to their own problems, they only need training, capital and capacity. We listen and then create partnerships with local nonprofit agencies with the ability to provide the hands-on training. We provide the resources, but the communities provide the solutions.
Geographic areas served: Latin America
Programs: Coffee Kids helps coffee-farming communities create their own opportunities.
The Rural Children?s Education Foundation (FHC) in Costa Rica provides scholarships to students for school supplies, uniforms, and transportation, as well as grants to rural elementary schools for infrastructure repairs, books and furniture. While Costa Rica is one of the most developed countries in the Western Hemisphere, many communities where coffee is grown lack educational opportunities. Coffee Kids partner, CECOCAFEN in Nicaragua, has also initiated an education project in Matagalpa, Nicaragua.
Coffee Kids also supports savings and microcredit groups that provide women with access to low-interest credit to begin or improve their own small businesses and teaches financial literacy. By creating small businesses outside of the coffee industry, women are able to earn an income throughout the year and create a more economically diverse community.
The interest generated by the loans is paid back to the community bank and used to develop the bank and pay its expenses. The emphasis of the program is on savings and the goal is to create independent lending institutions. Coffee Kids and our partner organizations in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala have established over 100 community banking groups, serving over 7,000 women, their families and their communities.
Coffee Kids supports various local initiatives that address a wide range of community needs from sanitation, to health care and nutrition, to education, to biodiesel.
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