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Letter from the executive director
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The FOOD SECURITY issue
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a letter from the development director
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Food security and the
sustainability of specialty coffee
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Travel log: Data collection
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AUGE wins international prize 16
CycleAmerica 2011 18
¡Gracias! 24
Carolyn Fairman
executive director
José Luis Zárate
international program director
Pedro Pérez
international program coordinator
Peter Kettler
development director
Joey Apodaca
development coordinator
Featured Donor: S & D
The Nordic Barista Cup: Taking Baristas
Back to Origin
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Elisa Kelly
development liaison
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que corra la voz
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Thanks to our supporters!
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Kristina Morris
communications coordinator
en español
la seguridad alimentaria y la sostenibilidad de los cafes de especialidad
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diaro de viaje: la recolección de datos
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contraparte AUGE gana premio interncaional
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Letter from the Executive Director
Dear Coffee Kids Supporter:
This issue of La Voz emphasizes Coffee Kids’ food security initiatives
in coffee-farming communities in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and
Peru. We hope that by reading our feature article by Rick Peyser of
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters you will gain a better understanding
of why this critical issue is at the forefront of this newsletter and why it
is so important for all of us who appreciate that wonderful cup every
morning.
At Coffee Kids we emphasize quality-of-life issues. From improving
health care, to providing opportunities for education, to ending hunger,
we recognize that a life of dignity is something we all deserve, and we
believe that quality of life is directly related to each of these concerns,
not the least of which is food security. Without the ability to feed yourself and your family throughout the year, it is virtually impossible to
focus on a quality harvest.
If we want coffee farming, and hence our morning cup, to be sustainable, we have to include quality-of-life issues in our sustainability efforts. As Peyser points out, “one of the greatest threats to the
long-term sustainability of our industry is chronic food insecurity in small-scale coffee-farming communities.”
Therefore, efforts to alleviate food insecurity as well as initiatives to address all quality-of-life issues
for coffee farmers must be an integral part of the coffee industry. Coffee Kids is a strategic partner in
helping to make quality coffee available every day, now and in the future.
Indeed, we must not be afraid to look at the longer-standing livelihood issues and their effect on communities. Coffee farmers face issues of hunger, lack of access to medical care, lack of education, and
infant mortality as a normal part of everyday life. By supporting Coffee Kids and forming this strategic
partnership, you are directly addressing all of these issues, not only that of food security.
We’d like to thank you for understanding the critical nature of this reality, for taking the time to consider the problem and address it head-on with us. Thank you for supporting Coffee Kids.
Sincerely,
Carolyn Fairman
Executive Director
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From the desk of:
Peter Kettler, development director
Food security. For many coffee consumers those words might conjure up images of inspectors
in pristine white lab coats, clipboards in hand, picking over bunches of broccoli in search of
a stray insect or some faint residue. For others it might mean stockpiles of soup and bottled
water, stored in a corner of the cellar alongside a flashlight and transistor radio, ready for some
possible catastrophe.
But in the world of coffee producers, food security means quite another thing. It means having access to enough food to adequately feed themselves and their families every day, every
month of every year. Unfortunately, due to an almost perfect storm of population growth, climate change and a growing competition for natural resources, many coffee-farming families
are facing widespread insecurity when it comes to meeting one of their most basic needs.
Although Coffee Kids programs are designed to address a wide variety of issues facing today’s
coffee producers, there is perhaps none more important than food security. It is the very
foundation upon which any discussion of quality of life is built. If there were a Constitution of
Coffee, food security would be listed as the first item in its Bill of Rights.
That’s why Coffee Kids is pleased to announce our Food Security Campaign. This effort will,
over the next year, help coffee-farming communities develop and implement a wide variety
of sustainable, locally based solutions to address the mounting problem of food security. Our
goal is to raise $100,000. In an industry with estimated sales that will exceed $13 billion over
the next year, this is small change indeed—small change that is desperately needed in order
to make big changes in the lives of coffee farmers.
The specialty coffee industry has shown steady growth due to its commitment to quality.
Please help us ensure that the coffee industry’s definition of quality includes a future that ensures a quality of life for its producers.
The following article by Rick Peyser provides a valuable perspective on the issue of food security, its effect on farming communities and what it could potentially mean for the coffee
industry as a whole. Over the past few years, Rick has passionately addressed this issue as one
that will help define the future of the coffee industry. As the longest-serving member of our
board of directors, Coffee Kids has benefited from Rick’s passion and expertise for many years.
We are very pleased to share his views with you in this issue of La Voz.
To find out more about the Food Security Campaign or to participate, please contact Development Director Peter Kettler at [email protected].
Peter Kettler is the development director at Coffee Kids. You can reach
him at [email protected]
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FOOD SECURITY IS FUNDAMENTAL TO LIFE AND TO THE
SUSTAINABILITY OF SPECIALTY COFFEE
by Rick Peyser
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lmost daily we are bombarded with news
from around the world that threatens human life—from droughts to flooding and
landslides, from hurricanes to tornadoes, from
plagues to food insecurity to global warming.
The frequency and scope of these challenges are
overwhelming, often leaving us feeling helpless
to respond.
greatest threats to the long-term sustainability of
our industry is chronic food insecurity in smallscale coffee-farming communities. Small-scale
coffee farmers generally account for somewhere
between 70 – 80 percent of the world’s overall
specialty-coffee production.
In 2007 the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) conducted a study in Nicaragua,
All of these issues have a devastating impact on two departments of Guatemala, and two states of
coffee communities—the segment of the global Mexico that reported that 67 percent of the smallpopulation to which we are closest. Some of scale farmers interviewed experienced between
these challenges arrive without warning; others three and eight months of extreme scarcity of
are more insidious and may be with us nearly al- food every year.
ways, even though they don’t generate headlines
While the coffee harvest offers small-scale farmor coverage on CNN.
ers an exportable cash crop, their income is limitThe challenge that I believe poses one of the ed by the amount of land under production (often
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just a few acres), and their coffee yield per hectare. In the best of times, most farmers find that
coffee alone does not provide enough income
to enable them to meet their most basic needs.
Many find off-farm employment that takes them
away from their homes and families for months
every year to make ends meet and to help put
food on the table.
their diet from their “fat months” diet. They just
consume fewer calories (or eat less) of the same
foods. Others eat less expensive foods, while
others borrow money from friends, relatives, or
the cooperative and repay their loan during the
next coffee harvest, entering into a cycle of debt.
Some keep their children home from school to
save money to buy food—money that would
have been used to purchase uniforms and books,
Why is food security so important? Food is thereby mortgaging their children’s future.
fundamental to health, the ability to learn, and to
all human activities. Food security is especially So what are the solutions? Most small-scale
critical for young children. Without it they are farmers agree that the way out of these months of
vulnerable to stunting, which may permanently food insecurity includes the following steps:
limit their physical and mental capacities. The
lack of access to nutritious food makes chil- 1. Maximize their earnings from coffee by increasing their coffee yield (production)
dren and adults more vulnerable to sickness and
health issues. In addition to the costs of medical 2. Diversify the family coffee parcel to grow
food products for family consumption and to
care that can devastate a family’s savings, most
coffee-farming families live in isolated communisell in the local market
ties, often hours on foot from the nearest medical 3. Grow and store basic grains for family conclinic. They must walk to this clinic to see a nurse
sumption and to sell in the local market when
and then walk back home—sick all the while.
prices are most advantageous
4. Develop other non-coffee businesses to supFood also has an impact on a young person’s
plement the family’s income from coffee
ability to learn. We discovered years ago here in
the U.S. that if a young child is sent to school Fortunately, there are many organizations workwithout a good breakfast in the morning, he or ing in coffee-growing communities, including
she will not learn up to his or her capacity.
Save the Children, Pueblo a Pueblo, Heifer International, Food4Farmers, Café Femenino, CathoWhile many of us have contributed to worthy lic Relief Services, Mercy Corps and Coffee Kids,
causes to address health and education challeng- among others. For more than 20 years, Coffee
es in coffee communities, we may not have been Kids has been supporting microcredit programs
aware of the breadth and depth of food insecurity that have been helping coffee-farming families
that plagues these very same communities. We diversify their sources of income. Small groups
may have missed something fundamental. Who of women have learned to save and to start their
would think that farmers, of all people, wouldn’t own small businesses, often unrelated to coffee,
be able to put food on their family tables every businesses like raising pigs, growing potatoes,
day of the year? It just doesn’t seem logical. It selling flowers, medicinal herbs, and more—all
to supplement their family income.
just isn’t right.
Many small-scale coffee-farming families have
developed coping mechanisms that enable them
to survive these months of food insecurity, which
in parts of Latin America are known as los meses
flacos (the thin months), la vaca flaca (the thin
cow), or el tiempo de agua (the time of water, or
the rainy season). Some families do not change
AUGE, a Coffee Kids partner organization based
in Teocelo, Veracruz, has sponsored microcredit
programs for years. At one point, the 2,000 women participating in AUGE’s microcredit program
had saved more than $750,000 USD, with many
investing these funds in their own small businesses and profiting from them.
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Fortunately, Coffee Kids also continues to support educational opportunities and scholarships
for the daughters and sons of coffee farmers. This
is the key to the future!
How does food insecurity threaten the
sustainability of the specialty coffee industry? This year, 2011, marks the first time in
history that the majority of people on this planet
live in urban areas. This change is due to massive
migration that is taking place globally from rural
areas to cities, where many perceive greater opportunities for a better life.
Even in remote coffee-growing areas it is not rare
to see young people with cell phones. Their cell
phones and their occasional visits to regional urban centers where they can access the Internet
provide them with links to the modern and alluring urban lifestyle. As a young person who has
grown up in a poor rural home, perhaps with a
dirt floor, no electricity, no access to clean water,
with limited access to health care, no access to
a secondary school education, and three to eight
months of food scarcity every year, why would
he or she stay? Would you?
Unless steps are taken to stem this migration by
providing a better future for families in coffeegrowing communities, we must pause and ask
ourselves, “Who will grow the next generation
of specialty coffee?” For our sake and for those
in the industry who will follow in our footsteps,
we had better have a good answer.
Rick Peyser is director of social advocacy and
coffee community outreach for Green Mountain
Coffee Roasters where he has worked for more
than 19 years. He has been a member of the
Coffee Kids board of directors for more than 10
years.
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LA SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA
ES FUNDAMENTAL PARA LA VIDA Y LA SOSTENIBILIDAD DE
LOS CAFÉS DE ESPECIALIDAD
por Rick Peyser
C
asi a diario estamos siendo bombardeados con noticias de todo el mundo sobre
eventos que amenazan la vida humana,
desde sequías a inundaciones y deslizamientos de tierra, desde huracanes hasta tornados,
de plagas a la inseguridad alimentaria hasta el
calentamiento global. La frecuencia y el alcance
de estos retos son abrumadores, haciéndonos
sentir a menudo impotentes.
Todas estas situaciones tienen un impacto devastador en las comunidades cafetaleras—el segmento de la población mundial con la cual estamos más cercanos. Algunos de estos desafíos
llegan sin previo aviso, mientras que otros son
más insidiosos y pueden estar con nosotros casi
siempre, a pesar de que no generen encabezados
en las noticias o tengan cobertura en CNN.
El reto que plantea una de las mayores amenazas
para la sostenibilidad a largo
plazo de nuestra industria,
es la inseguridad alimentaria crónica en comunidades
de productores de café. Estos productores de café a
pequeña escala representan
por lo general entre 70 y el
80 por ciento del total de la
producción mundial de cafés de especialidad.
El estudio reportó que el 67 por ciento de los
pequeños productores entrevistados han experimentado cada año entre tres y ocho meses de
escasez extrema de alimentos.
Aunque la cosecha de café ofrece a los productores de café en pequeña escala un cultivo comercial exportable, sus ingresos se ven limitados por
la cantidad de tierra dedicada a la producción
(que a menudo es de sólo unas pocas hectáreas)
y por el rendimiento por hectárea. En el mejor de
los casos, la mayoría de los productores descubre que incluso el café que producen no proporciona los ingresos suficientes que les permita satisfacer sus necesidades más básicas. Por lo que
muchos deben encontrar empleo en sectores no
agrícolas que los aleja de sus hogares y de sus
familias durante meses cada año a fin de tener
recursos suficientes y ayudar a poner alimentos
sobre la mesa.
En 2007, el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
(CIAT) realizó un estudio en
Nicaragua, en dos departamentos de Guatemala y
en dos estados de México.
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¿Por qué es la seguridad alimentaria tan
importante? La comida es fundamental para
la salud, para mantener la capacidad de aprender y para realizar todas las actividades humanas. La seguridad alimentaria es especialmente
importante para los niños pequeños. Sin ella,
son susceptibles de sufrir desnutrición crónica,
lo que puede limitar de manera permanente su
capacidad física y mental. La falta de acceso a
alimentos nutritivos hace que niños y adultos por
igual sean más vulnerables a problemas de salud
y blanco de enfermedades. Además de los costos
de la atención médica que pueden literalmente
arrasar con los ahorros de la familia, la mayoría
de las familias productoras de café viven en comunidades aisladas, que a menudo se encuentran a horas a pie de distancia de la clínica más
cercana. Cuando se enferman, tienen que caminar hasta la clínica para ser atendidos por una
enfermera y luego caminar de regreso a casa—
esto mientras se encuentran aún enfermos.
Los alimentos tienen también un impacto en la
capacidad de aprendizaje de una persona joven.
Hemos descubierto hace años que si a un joven
se le envía a la escuela sin un buen desayuno por
la mañana, él o ella no va a tener la capacidad
suficiente para aprender.
familias no cambian su dieta de los “meses gordos”. Simplemente consumen menos calorías (o
Mientras que muchos de nosotros hemos contri- comen menos) de los mismos alimentos. Otros
buido a buenas causas para hacer frente a prob- comen alimentos menos caros. Mientras que
lemas de salud y educación en las comunidades otros piden dinero prestado a amigos, familiares,
cafetaleras, es posible que no hayamos sido con- o la cooperativa y pagan su préstamo durante la
scientes de la amplitud y profundidad de la in- próxima cosecha de café, entrando en un ciclo
seguridad alimentaria que afecta a estas mismas permanente de endeudamiento. Algunos otros
comunidades. Es posible que hayamos perdido deciden no mandar a sus niños a la escuela para
de vista algo fundamental. ¿Quién podría pensar ahorrar dinero—dinero que habría sido utilizaque los agricultores, de entre todas las personas, do para comprar uniformes y libros—para poder
no serían capaces de poner comida en la mesa poner comida en la mesa.
de sus familias durante todos los días del año?
No parece lógico. Y simplemente no está bien.
¿Cuáles son las soluciones? La mayoría de
los pequeños productores están de acuerdo en
Muchas familias de pequeños productores han
que la manera de salir de estos meses de insedesarrollado mecanismos de adaptación que les
guridad alimentaria incluye los siguientes pasos:
permiten sobrevivir durante estos meses de inseguridad alimentaria, que en algunas partes de
1. Maximizar los ingresos del café mediante el
América Latina se conocen como los meses flaaumento de su rendimiento (producción).
cos, la vaca flaca, o el tiempo de agua. Algunas
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2. Diversificar la parcela familiar de café y en este planeta vive en zonas urbanas. Este camcultivar alimentos para el consumo fa- bio se debe a la migración masiva que está temiliar y para vender en el mercado local. niendo lugar a nivel mundial de las zonas rurales
a las ciudades, donde muchos perciben mayores
3. Cultivar y almacenar granos básicos para el oportunidades para tener una vida mejor.
consumo familiar y para vender en el mercado
local cuando los precios sean convenientes. Incluso en las zonas cafetaleras más remotas no
es raro ver a los jóvenes con teléfonos celula4. Desarrollar otros negocios no relacionados al res. Sus teléfonos celulares y las visitas ocasioncafé para complementar los ingresos que la ales que hacen a los centros urbanos regionales,
familia obtiene del café.
donde pueden acceder a Internet, les proporcionan enlaces al moderno y atractivo estilo de
Afortunadamente, hay muchas organizaciones vida urbano. Siendo una persona joven que ha
que trabajan en las comunidades cafetaleras, crecido en una casa rural pobre, tal vez con un
entre ellas Save the Children, Pueblo a Pueblo, piso de tierra, sin electricidad, sin acceso a agua
Heifer International, Food4Farmers, Café Fe- limpia, con acceso limitado a servicios de salud,
menino, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps que no tiene acceso a una educación de escuela
y Coffee Kids. Por más de 20 años, Coffee Kids secundaria, y enfrenta de tres a ocho meses de
ha apoyado programas de microcrédito que han escasez de alimentos cada año, ¿por qué quisiera
ayudado a familias cafetaleras a diversificar sus quedarse? ¿Tú te quedarías?
fuentes de ingresos. Pequeños grupos de mujeres
han aprendido a ahorrar y establecer sus propios A menos que se tomen medidas para frenar esta
negocios, a menudo no relacionados con el café, migración y proveer un mejor futuro para las fanegocios como las de la cría de cerdos, el cultivo milias en las comunidades cafetaleras, debemos
de papas, venta de flores, hierbas medicinales detenernos y preguntarnos: “¿Quién va a cultivar
y mucho más—todo para complementar sus in- la próxima generación de café de especialidad?”
gresos familiares.
Por nuestro bien y por aquellos en la industria
que seguirán nuestros pasos, más vale tener una
AUGE, una organización contraparte de Coffee buena respuesta.
Kids con base ​​en Teocelo, Veracruz, ha patrocinado programas de microcrédito por años. En
algún momento, las 2,000 mujeres que participaban en el programa de microcrédito de AUGE
habían ahorrado más de $750,000 dólares, muchas de ellas invirtiendo estos fondos en sus propios pequeños negocios y beneficiándose de ellos.
Afortunadamente, Coffee Kids sigue prestando
apoyo en temas de educación y contribuyendo
con becas para los hijos e hijas de los productores de café. Esta es la clave para el futuro.
¿Cómo amenaza la inseguridad alimentaria a la sostenibilidad de la industria de
cafés de especialidad? Este año, 2011, por
primera vez en la historia, la mayoría de la gente
Rick Peyser es el director de apoyo social para
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters donde ha trabajado por más de 19 años. Has sido un miembro
de la mesa directiva de Coffee Kids por más de
10 años.
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Travel log: Data collection
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Each time I think about our program trips and all that I learn through them,
I get that feeling again: the need to travel for several hours by car through
dirt roads, to witness amazing landscapes and talk with project participants. It’s truly energizing.
Every year, the Coffee Kids program department visits each of our partners
to see the progress of the projects, meet the participants firsthand and
gather data and testimonials that will help us tell the participants’ stories
to our donors and the general public.
I have to admit that, although I am familiar with the concept and use of
data, I have just begun to discover the complexity of data collection and
interpretation. Being this the first time in my professional career that I
have the opportunity to gather data in the field, I’m very surprised by how
time consuming and complex this task can be.
The subtle differences among all the partners and communities with whom
Coffee Kids collaborates (this year we are collaborating with 16 partners
from 5 countries) make it altogether a more interesting process. A cultural
and linguistic sensitivity is needed. For example, even though participants
speak Spanish in both Mexico and Nicaragua, differences in vocabulary,
if not taken into account, can lead to misunderstandings and uncomfortable situations. Even within Mexico, there can be great variations in language use depending on the region. Many participants in certain regions
of Guatemala do not speak Spanish and, because of repeated abuses and
human rights violations, do not trust people from outside of their community. Sometimes, certain development terms and concepts simply cannot
be translated. This poses a significant challenge to data collection.
Back when I was studying in college, I would often rely on data that I
obtained from national census organisms or other well-established NGOs
and international organizations to support my arguments. I would use
different sets of data without paying too much attention to how it was
gathered or how it was interpreted. I just trusted the source and assumed
it was correct. Now, working for Coffee Kids, I realize that the data that
we gather during our program trips has to be accurate. This data is used to
measure the progress of a project or, for example, create a picture of how
much a coffee grower earns per cultivated hectare.
Our program trips give us the opportunity to interview the participants
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directly to better understand how the project is progressing. We also
formulate a number of questionnaires that are handed to each of our
partners according to the project they are implementing (food security,
economic diversification, health awareness, capacity building or education). These questionnaires are another way to measure the progress
and impact of a project.
Coffee Kids’ methodology for collecting data is very straightforward
and somewhat intuitive. We try to help the participants feel comfortable opening up to us. Some do, because that’s their nature, and for
others it’s more of a challenge. Often, our partner organizations help
distribute the questionnaires and conduct some of the interviews because a rapport with project participants has already been established.
Without a doubt, there is still much to learn, but I am able to recognize, along with the project participants, how important and useful it is
not only to collect high-quality data, but also to interpret it accurately.
This is what allows us to objectively measure the progress and impact
of our work.
Pedro Pérez is the program
coordinator at Coffee Kids.
You can email him at pedro@
coffeekids.org
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Diario de viaje: La recoleccion de datos
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Desde la última vez que estuve en un viaje de programas he pensado en lo mucho que aprendo al
visitar a los participantes y a las comunidades con las cuales colabora Coffee Kids. Cada vez que
pienso en estos viajes, empiezo a tener de nuevo ese deseo de viajar por horas a través de caminos
de terracería, en medio de paisajes espectaculares e inimaginables, y de hablar con los participantes
de los proyectos, además de sentirme lleno de energía.
Al menos una vez al año, el departamento de programas de Coffee Kids visita a cada una de nuestras
organizaciones contrapartes. Estas visitas tienen como objetivo, entre otras cosas, ver como progresan los proyectos, conocer en persona a los participantes del proyecto y recabar información y
testimonios de los participantes que nos ayudarán a contar su historia a nuestros donantes y al público en general.
Tengo que admitir que a pesar de que estoy familiarizado con el manejo de datos, he empezado a
descubrir lo complejo que puede ser obtenerlos e interpretarlos. Siendo esta la primera vez en mi
carrera profesional que tengo la oportunidad de recopilar datos directamente en el campo, estoy
muy sorprendido por lo tardado y complejo que puede ser esta tarea.
Las sutiles diferencias entre las organizaciones contrapartes o las comunidades con las que colabora
Coffee Kids (este año estamos colaborando con 16 contrapartes en 5 países) hacen el proceso de
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colectar información aún más interesante. Por ejemplo, tenemos que ser cuidadosos con nuestro
lenguaje cuando hacemos una entrevista en México o en Nicaragua porque, a pesar de que el español es el idioma oficial en ambos países, algunas palabras que se utilizan en México no significan lo
mismo en Nicaragua, o no se utilizan de la misma manera. Incluso si solo hiciéramos entrevistas en
México tenemos que reconocer que hay diferencias lingüísticas dependiendo de la región en la que
estamos. Muchos participantes en ciertos proyectos en Guatemala no hablan español y, por la historia que han sufrido, no confían en personas de fuera de la comunidad. A veces, ciertos términos o
conceptos de desarrollo simplemente no se pueden traducir, lo cual presenta un desafío significativo
al proceso de recolectar datos.
Durante mis estudios universitarios, tuve que escribir varios artículos de investigación, basando algunos de mis argumentos en datos que obtenía de organismos nacionales de estadística o de organizaciones internacionales. Los datos que elegía, los usaba sin prestar demasiada atención a la forma en
que fueron obtenidos o cómo fueron interpretados, confiaba en que la fuente fuera correcta y confiable. Ahora, trabajando para Coffee Kids, me doy cuenta de que los datos que producimos en Coffee
Kids durante nuestros viajes de programa tienen que ser correctos y confiables. Estos datos pueden
utilizarse para medir los avances de un proyecto o, por ejemplo, dar una idea de cuánto gana un
productor de café por hectárea cultivada.
Durante nuestros viajes de programas entrevistamos directamente a los participantes para tener una
idea más clara de cómo está avanzando el proyecto. También formulamos una serie de cuestionarios
que se entregan a cada uno de nuestras organizaciones contrapartes de acuerdo al proyecto que
están ejecutando (seguridad alimentaria, diversificación económica, salud, educación y fortalecimiento organizacional). Estos cuestionarios son otra manera de obtener información para medir el
progreso y el impacto que un proyecto pueda tener en una comunidad o comunidades.
La metodología de Coffee Kids para recolectar datos es muy sencilla e intuitiva. Nos esforzamos en
hacer sentir cómodos a los participantes pues algunos hablan de manera abierta porque es su naturaleza pero para otras personas es más difícil abrirse a desconocidos.
Sin duda hay mucho aún que aprender, pero puedo ver, igual que los participantes de los proyectos,
lo importante y útil que es recolectar información de calidad y procesarla adecuadamente, para
poder así ver objetivamente el progreso e impacto de nuestro trabajo.
Pedro Pérez es el coordinador de
programas en Coffee Kids. Le puedes
contactar por correo electrónico a
[email protected]
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Coffee Kids partner AUGE wins international prize
AUGE wins the Foundation Vidanta Prize for their contribution to the reduction of poverty and
inequality.
By José Luis Zárate
O
n August 29, Foundation VIDANTA
awarded Self-Manged Development
(AUGE), one of our longtime project
partners in Veracruz, Mexico, highest recognition
for their contribution to the reduction of poverty
and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The criteria used to evaluate applicants include
the following: innovation, measurable results and
impact, ability to continue work, ability to offer
knowledge and experience that can be replicated improve its impact through the practice of savin other places, and environmental sustainability. ings and microcredit.
For more than 15 years, AUGE has built and
systematized a successful microfinance model
based on the power of internal savings, a concept that they compare to a needle and thread.
Manuel Rodríguez, one of the founders of AUGE,
explains that a needle without thread can move
through two pieces of fabric, but it won’t unite
them, which is what happens when credit is taken on without creating any lasting change within
the community.
However, when we combine the work of the
needle with that of the thread, the fabric is joined
and strengthened, just as a family is strengthened
by the savings they generate through hard work.
While using credit is a tool necessary to growth,
it also must be transitory. It is of utmost importance that the savings groups adopt this perspective before even beginning their savings work.
It’s not just about facilitating participants’ access
to credit. It’s about strengthening their ability to
save, generate and increase their own funds, all
the while learning to manage their money and
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All of us at Coffee Kids would like to extend our
most sincere congratulations to our friends at
AUGE, who we’ve known since the beginning of
their inspiring trajectory.
We’d like again to recognize Foundation Vidanta
for supporting the work of organizations that, like
AUGE, contribute to improving the quality of life
of so many.
The awards ceremony will take place this November 10 in the city of Santo Domingo in the
Dominican Republic. The first-place prize is
$100,000 USD, which they will receive in recognition of their 15 years of hard work. The funds
will no doubt allow them to continue their mission, benefitting hundreds of families in Veracruz, Mexico.
To learn more:
Premio VIDANTA 2011
José Luis Zárate is the international
program director at Coffee Kids. You
can email him at [email protected]
contraparte auge gana premio internacional
AUGE es el recipiente del premio 2011 de la fundación Vidanta por sus contribuciones a la
reducción de la pobreza y la desigualdad.
Por José Luis Zárate
E
l pasado 29 de Agosto, Desarrollo Autogestionario A.C. (AUGE), una de nuestras
contrapartes en Veracruz, México, recibió
la grata notificación de haber ganado el primer
lugar del premio otorgado por la Fundación VIDANTA en su emisión 2011. El premio reconoce
organismos de la sociedad civil por sus “contribuciones a la reducción de la pobreza y la
desigualdad en América Latina y el Caribe.”
No se trata propiamente de facilitar el acceso al
crédito. Se trata de fortalecer la capacidad de
ahorro, de generar, incrementar y aprender a
usar fondos propios, a partir del uso del crédito
interno como instrumento para potencializar el
impacto del dinero que los grupos poseen.
Todos en Coffee Kids, extendemos nuestras más
sinceras felicitaciones a nuestros amigos en
AUGE, a quienes conocemos desde los inicios
Cabe destacar que los criterios de evaluación de su brillante trayectoria. Sin olvidar un reconopara lograr este premio evalúan los siguientes as- cimiento más para la Fundación VIDANTA, por
pectos: a) innovación, b) resultados mensurables apoyar el trabajo de organizaciones que como
e impacto, c) capacidad de continuarse en el AUGE contribuyen intensa y sinceramente por
tiempo y ofrecer conocimientos y experiencias mejorar la calidad de vida de tantas personas que
que puedan replicarse en otros sitios, y final- lo necesitan.
mente d) sustentabilidad ambiental.
La ceremonia de premiación tendrá lugar el
A lo largo de más de 15 años AUGE ha construi- próximo 10 de Noviembre en la ciudad de Sando y sistematizado un exitoso modelo de micro- to Domingo, República Dominicana. El primer
finanzas basadas en el poder del ahorro interno. lugar de este premio consiste en $100,000 USD
Concepto que como ellos mismos gustan de ex- que recibirán en reconocimiento a su trayectoria
plicar se puede comparar con el uso del hilo y la de más de 15 años de arduo trabajo, fondos que
aguja. Manuel Rodríguez, uno de los fundadores sin duda les permitirán continuar con su misión
de AUGE, explica que una aguja sin hilo puede en beneficio de cientos de familias en Veracruz,
entrar y salir en la tela muchas veces sin unir las México.
piezas. Tal y como un simple crédito puede hacerlo cuando no logra ningún cambio positivo en Para saber más
la vida de las personas. Sin embargo, cuando a Premio VIDANTA 2011
la aguja sumamos el trabajo del hilo, entonces la
tela se une y fortalece, algo que en la vida cotidiana de una familia se consigue gracias al ahorro
que logran generar como resultado de su trabajo. Para las microfinanzas familiares, el uso del
crédito es un instrumento necesario, pero debe
ser obligadamente transitorio. Esta perspectiva es
sumamente importante que los grupos de AUGE
José Luis Zárate es el director de proadopten, antes de iniciar su trabajo como grupos
gramas internacionales en Coffee
de ahorro.
Kids. Se puede contactar por correo
electrónico a [email protected].
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By Kristina Morris
Becki
Arturs
Dayle
Steve
Kick-off
On August 29, two English cyclists set out on what
would be a journey that would not only raise awareness of poverty in coffee-growing regions, but would
also test their strength, endurance, resolve and their
ideas about American culture.
They were welcomed to North Carolina by Café Helios and Counter Culture Coffee before starting their
3,000-mile trek across the country for Coffee Kids.
Their departure from Surf City was a quiet one, to be
sure. After posing for a few photos with locals, they
quietly hopped on their bikes and set out toward South
Carolina.
The tempest
Just a few days in, the boys came head-to-head with a
monstrous beast of a thunderstorm that would follow
them throughout their trajectory. Apparently, as Dayle
says, America has bigger trucks, milk containers, bugs
and thunderstorms.
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It all started in Canton, Georgia, at around
3:30 pm. The boys were coasting along in
pretty intense heat. Steve remembers thinking that he wished he had some rain to cool
them down. “You should always be careful
what you wish for,” he says now. It suddenly went dark and the thunderheads rolled
in. The boys grabbed their bikes and ran to
nearby trees to take shelter. After 20 minutes
or so, they slunk out of their hiding place
looking, as Dayle says, as though they’d
taken “a shortcut through a car wash.” As
they pedaled on, they saw the extent of the
storm’s damage: uprooted trees, knockeddown traffic lights, roofs torn off buildings.
The boys carried on, only to run into yet another storm. This one descended upon them when the
support car was far ahead of the riders. In no time, their clothes were soaked through, and night was
beginning to fall. They had two options: stay put and hope that the support car would find them in the
dark, or bike through the storm to the nearest town. After a few miles, they came across a building
with the lights on. They turned in and began knocking on the door, asking for shelter and a phone.
The building turned out to be a Hospice. According to the Hospice site, the Hospice concept is one
of “caring derived from medieval times, symbolizing a place where travelers, pilgrims and the sick,
wounded or dying could find rest and comfort.” And that they did. Wrapped in towels and given dry
socks, the boys enjoyed ravioli and donuts while the volunteers called the support car to give them
directions.
Thunderstorms weren’t the only force that the boys were up against. They began to realize what it
means to cycle in temperatures above 100 degrees. Sunburned, sore, and a bit dehydrated, it became
difficult to stay alert.
As they drove through Georgia toward Alabama, the driving seemed to get increasingly more aggressive. Drivers, unaccustomed to sharing the road, began to honk at Dayle and Steve and sped by them
without leaving any room for them along the shoulder. They were forced, more than once, to leap off
their bikes and fly into the nearest ditch to avoid joining the ranks of the opossums and armadillos
mashed along the road.
From Hospice to Hospital
As if battling a tempest of American proportions weren’t enough, Dayle later had a mishap with the
clipping mechanism in his pedals, falling smack on the one rock beneath his bike. Barely able to
walk, much less continue cycling, Dayle waited as Steve flagged down a truck. Preacher Billy Inman took the boys to the nearest hospital in Oxford, Mississippi. Dayle was immediately sat down
in a wheelchair and marked with a fall risk tag, just in case he, you know, fell out of his chair. “After
about a dozen different people poking my arse and asking if it hurts,” says Dayle, “I went for an x-ray
and the news was bad.” Dayle was told he had a dime-size break in his hip and wouldn’t be able to
continue the trip.
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Only after seeing Dayle’s devastation did the doctor decide to
get a second opinion via satellite. Good thing, too, because the
second doctor said that the break had been from a previous injury and that Dayle would be biking again in just a few days.
Steve went at it solo for a while, with occasional help from Becki
and Arturs. He enjoyed nice weather and didn’t run into any
technical difficulties. Dayle finally was able to get back on and
ease into riding with an introductory 25 miles. Like clockwork,
once Dayle began riding again, the raindrops began to fall. The
boys continued on as the rain fell harder. When they weren’t
able to bike anymore, they were forced to find shelter in a place
where there really wasn’t any. They took cover under a tree just
as the winds picked up. Steve wrapped one arm around the
trunk and the other around his bike. Dayle wrapped his arms
around the two bikes and hunkered down as the wind lifted his
bike into the air. The boys knew they were in trouble when the
wind started pulling trees up out of the ground. “Luckily,” Dayle
says, “a truck had to stop as part of a tree was blocking the road.
So we came out of our hideout like little drowned Gollums and flagged it down in a plea to get us to
safety.” About 10 minutes later, the boys got word that a terrible hailstorm with incredibly high winds
was unleashed over the area, causing extensive damage and taking out power lines.
Despite losing a pair of cycling glasses, an iPod and a cycling computer to the storm, the boys were
incredibly optimistic. “I have gone through a lot to get here,” says Dayle, “but it’s all good fun, and I
have the stories to tell. So if you come across a storm, don’t do what I did and cycle into it. It’s really
not a good idea.”
The rodeo kings
Crossing over into Mangum, Texas, the boys arrived just in time
to experience the thrills of rodeo. “The British wouldn’t allow
anything like this,” Dayle says, “unless the cowboys wore helmets instead of cowboy hats, and the floor were made out of
sponge.” The boys became the guests of honor and were given
free t-shirts to commemorate their most American of experiences.
Route 66
While we at Coffee Kids were all very concerned about the boys biking on the interstate, it turned
out to be the highlight of the trip—up to that point, anyway. They swooshed into Albuquerque and
took it easy before heading up to Santa Fe to see the Coffee Kids HQ. We had a little welcome jam
for them at the local Whole Foods, complete with sandwiches, beer and live music. We can at least
say that they left here well fed and at least somewhat rested.
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Locked in a church eating fried rice
Santa Fe was quite a contrast to the next town on their itinerary: Thoreau. Thoreau is a town that
dispels the myth many foreigners have of a rich and affluent US of A. “We looked over Thoreau and
were surprised at the poverty that we saw before us,” remembers Steve. “So many houses boarded
up, and as soon as we pulled over at where we were staying people were coming up to us begging.”
There were no motels and the boys were cautioned about staying there. The local pastor offered
to let them stay in his church and sleep on gym mats. Before they were locked in the church, they
were able to shower off in the local disaster relief van with ice-cold water. Once inside, they were
instructed not to open the door to anyone and warned that a storm would be making its way through
the area, possibly causing the power to go out. The boys found corn dogs and fried rice in the communal kitchen and prepared for an eerie night in an empty church.
Armadillos
Dayle has learned a lot about armadillos on his trip. “Armadillo?” he says,
“It’s an animal that’s crunchy on the outside, soft in the middle and a constant victim to roadkill… It’s also a tyre by Specialized.”
Once in Flagstaff, the boys were relieved to find themselves in a cyclingfriendly community. It was here that Dayle was able to get some brand
new Armadillo tires free of charge. No more punctures for him, oh no.
These babies are guaranteed to last all the way to Santa Monica. They also
found a place to stay and had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Not bad.
What goes up…
The boys had known about the next stretch of road for some time. From Flagstaff to Prescott, they’d
have to climb 4,000 feet in just 15 miles to eventually get up to 7,000 feet. After stocking up on Gatorade, they started the climb, maxing out at about eight mph. “At about 5,000 feet I cycled through
a little town,” Dayle remembers, “where an old guy shouted at me that I have the easy part left. ‘Awesome,’ I thought. He lied to me. But at the summit of 7,023 feet, I knew what was coming next.”
It took 90 minutes to climb the mountain, and about nine minutes to get down. While cars were going 20 mph, the boys flew down the mountain, sometimes reaching 40 mph. Of course a large part
of the exhilaration comes from the danger of it. At one point Dayle took a turn a little too wide and
realized that he’d be tumbling down the side of the mountain if he weren’t careful.
Dayle’s words of wisdom: Where there’s a mountain, there’s a way: ride a bike up it.
Into the Desert
After the mountainous terrain of northern Arizona, the boys continued on to the desert of Arizona
and California. Driving through miles of sand, cactus and dirt devils, the Cycle America team began
to realize that this would probably be the most difficult part of their journey. Indeed, temperatures
reached 120 degrees. When Dayle’s skin began to bubble, he was relegated to the air-conditioned
car and lathered with After Sun. “I decided to carry on,” said Steve, “and cycle through the heat. At
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this point I didn’t realise how hot it actually was.
I guess ignorance is bliss. I think everyone on the
interstate was amazed that a cyclist was out in this
weather. I even had people beeping their horn and
shouting, ‘You can do it!’”
The trek got harder as the boys got closer to the
California coast, not yet cruising down toward the
ocean. “I’ll admit that at times today I just wanted
it to be over,” said Steven. “For the whole of this
trip I have loved the cycling, but yesterday and
today I did wish I was still sitting in the motel. A
friend recently told me a Winston Churchill quote:
‘When you’re going through hell, keep going.’ I was thinking about this a lot today.”
End of the road
On the last day of the journey, the boys began to smell the salty air about 15 miles from Santa
Monica. “When I felt it, I knew that this was it,” shares Dayle. “The end was coming. The road just
seemed to last forever. Every hill brow I was anticipating that I would see the sea, but time after time
I was teased.” Steven shares his thoughts, as the end of the road came into view. “You know it was all
worth it to have that moment cycling over the Los Angeles hills, seeing the Hollywood sign, smelling
the sea air and rolling down into Santa Monica beach.”
Dayle describes the moment they rolled into the finish line:
“Suddenly the pier was in sight, and I went straight for it. So many people were around,
but I didn’t care. I rode up and saw Arturs and Becki there with the banner. The joy
was unbelievable. Went onto the beach, savoured the moment and in my cycleAMERICA2011.com cycling top I dived in. I just had to do it. There wasn’t the big parade,
or anyone that cared we were there, but it didn’t feel like an anticlimax. The four of us
had done it. We crossed the United States of America. The moment was ours to have,
nobody else’s but ours.”
And then Dayle got arrested (in his own words)
But as with everything that concerns me, the story didn’t finish. We were going for
a celebratory beer, so innocently I went into an English bar and went to the toilet. (I
hadn’t had a piss for 30 miles.) Anyway, I came out where five cop cars and a dozen
policemen targeted me out, and forced me out of the bar to arrest me. I was basically a
victim of mistaken identity, and they thought I was a guy who had just stabbed someone. So the people of Santa Monica watched on as the LAPD screamed at me to put my
hands behind my back and searched me for a weapon. Pretty intense moment, until
they realised I was the wrong person, in which they apologised and thanked me for my
cooperation. Cooperation? I had no choice.
And then they partied, Hollywood style.
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Becki and Arturs have been busy putting together the documentary they filmed
while on the road with the boys. Here’s a trailer for your viewing pleasure.
Kristina Morris is the communications
coordinator at Coffee Kids. You can
reach her at [email protected].
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¡Gracias!
By Joey Apodaca
Thank you to the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) for all their
support during the SCAE World of Coffee event in Maastricht.
Thank you to the Nordic Barista Cup for their invitation to Coffee Kids to attend the competition.
Thank you to CMA, s.p.a., for their generous sponsorship of the Coffee Kids
reception at the SCAE.
Opposite Cafe, Has Bean and Howard Barwick for collected donations for
Coffee Kids during inmymug 150.
The Beverage Standards Association, a trade association for the UK, generated funds through the annual AGM auction.
Masteroast Coffee Company, Ltd. of Peterborough, UK, collected funds during their anniversary Bean Bash to support Coffee Kids.
Thank you to all the sponsors of CycleAmerica2011! There are a few sponsors that deserve special mention: Joe Behm of Behmor, Inc., solicited Coffee
Kids donors to support the cause through a special guest blog and a challenge
grant of $1,500. Esquires of Coventry, Counter Culture Coffee and Café Helios, Whole Foods of Santa Fe and Intelligentsia Venice hosted parties and
fundraisers along Steven and Dayle’s journey. Thank you so much!
Allegro Coffee Company donated $10,000 to Coffee Kids through the sale of
their Los Niños blend at Whole Foods nationwide. Allegro also hosted a team
member’s art show at their roastery in Thornton, CO, to benefit Coffee Kids.
Kim Quillin organized a bike relay at Prospect Park in New York City as a
fundraiser. She asked each cycling team to give a $30 donation, with all proceeds going directly to Coffee Kids.
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Featured Donor: S&D Coffee
By Peter Kettler
S&D Coffee, based in Concord, North Carolina, currently serves more than 70,000 customers nationwide and
has been a major supporter of Coffee Kids since 2004.
As a family-owned company established in 1927, S&D
respects the role that families have played in every aspect of the coffee industry and seeks to ensure that the
next generation of coffee farmers can look forward to a
future that is filled with possibility instead of struggle.
Lee Wicker, Senior Vice President at S&D said, “The
supply chain to families who harvest coffee around the
world is of vital concern to S&D and its customers. In
this regard Coffee Kids plays an important role. With the
work Coffee Kids does to improve the lives of children in
the coffee lands, we can be assured that future generations of consumers can enjoy the coffee they love.”
We appreciate the continued support of S&D Coffee and
invite other companies to join us as we continually look
for new ways to support coffee farmers in their pursuit of
a better life for themselves, their families and their communities. Thanks S&D!
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The Nordic Barista Cup: Taking baristas back to origin
By Elisa Kelly
In the face of the many exciting and enlightening
experiences that Coffee Kids has had in Europe
this 2011 (including our Barista Throwdown during Caffe Culture and the fantastic Drinks at the
Dominikaner at SCAE World of Coffee), it is difficult to isolate one particular highlight to discuss.
However, it seems fitting to focus here on our
recent experiences at this year’s Nordic Barista
Cup (NBC), a truly unique event that encourages
baristas, roasters, traders and producers to “Be
together. Act together. Learn together.” In particular, the event’s interweaving of issues at coffee
origin throughout its program is a theme close to
Coffee Kids’ heart and sparked our desire to participate in the very important dialogues arising.
First organized by Jens Nørgaard, Jens Henrik
Thomsen, Andreas Kragh and others in 2003,
the NBC was initially conceived as a face-off between the national barista teams of Denmark and
Norway. After the first successful battle, Finland,
Iceland and Sweden expressed that they would
also love to be involved, and thus the Nordic
Barista Cup was born.
A multifaceted and challenging competition between the national teams of the Nordic nations is
still a key component of the three-day event, with
a focus not only on key barista skills, such as filter coffee brewing and coffee cupping, but also
on Nordic coffee culture. Taking center stage for
Organizer, Björg Brend, assesses espressos.
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most participants, however, is an eclectic and
topical educational program composed of lectures by industry leaders and innovators and
a series of practical learning sessions. Themes
are wide-ranging and cover innovations in the
preparation of coffee through to coffee farmers’
perspectives.
One of the NBC’s defining characteristics is a
focus on coffee origin. Every year a particular
coffee-producing country is highlighted, coffees from that country are emphasized, and
sessions on those coffees’ profiles, processing
practices, and production issues that growers
face are incorporated into the educational program. The zenith of this focus is a trip to the
chosen country of origin for the winning barista team. This amazing prize enables baristas
to meet producers, to learn more about coffee
farming, and to more fully understand processes contributing to the aesthetic qualities one
experiences in the cup. This focus on origin reveals a holistic approach to coffee quality and
Winning Team Sweden, joined by James Hoffman of
Square Mile Coffee Roasters, celebrates their upcoming
trip to Sumatra with a little sport.
Andrej Godina of Dalla Corte, Elisa Kelly, Greg Costello
of Workhouse Coffee and Joseph Rivera of coffeechemistry.com
a commitment to education regarding this on
the part of event organizers. As founder Jens
Nørgaard comments, “What is important here
is…the barista. Many have never seen a coffee plant... The barista has to understand more
than the coffee machine. [They] have to understand the raw material.” Not only does this
engagement deepen baristas’ understanding of
coffee, he says, it creates a foundation for sharing knowledge and “working together to make
a better world.”
adequate aesthetic quality. One major challenge
arising within the industry is to find ways to invest in the future of quality coffee – to ensure that
cup quality not only improves qualitatively (i.e.,
higher-quality coffee) but also quantitatively (i.e.,
more of it).
The organizers and participants of the NBC
share a passion for coffee and an inventive outlook that is inspiring. Furthermore, the commitment to improving coffee quality through
innovative direct trade models, increased communication between growers and buyers, and
focus on origin espoused by NBC participants
reflect and advance an era in the specialty coffee industry where direct investment in production is an increasingly salient standard in
the wider industry.
During the course of the event, I found myself
ruminating on the issue of coffee quality and
the way in which we at Coffee Kids can engage more meaningfully with that term. An important ongoing conversation in the specialty
coffee industry concerns the fragility of present supplies of coffee of exceptional and, even,
Coffee Kids’ commitment to the well-being of
coffee-farming families, it is true, has not often
directly focused on the production of coffee or
improvements to its quality in the past, though
this is an area in which we increasingly work due
to requests from coffee farmers themselves. We
know that cup quality is not only important to
the industry but is also profoundly important to
the coffee-farming families with whom we work,
families who are deeply committed to their roles
as coffee farmers and who consider coffee growing a part of the heritage that they wish to pass on
to their children and grandchildren.
Improving coffee quality and consistency is emergent as a key component of achieving this goal.
It is imperative to keep in mind, however, that for
many small-scale coffee producers (accountable
for that fabled 70 percent of the world’s supply
of coffee), producing a higher-quality coffee can
be extremely difficult to achieve due to social,
political, economic and environmental barriers.
Lack of access to the most current technical and
agronomic knowledge is one of these barriers, of
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Team Sweden on day 1, unaware of the glory yet to
come
course. At the same time, additional barriers such
as seasonal hunger, low levels of numeracy and
literacy, and lack of access to health care present
even more stubborn obstacles to a more complete engagement with one’s coffee plantation
and processing.
Many of the communities and families with
whom Coffee Kids works have not yet surmounted these obstacles and thus may not be considered as candidates for many of the sorts of quality
investments that are being discussed in the industry – particularly those investments arising from
direct-trade and relationship models. However,
as farmers who are deeply committed to continuing the heritage of coffee production, their continued (and improved) production is crucial for
specialty coffee’s survival in the long run. Market-based incentives are not entirely sufficient to
achieve this goal. This is why, when considering
the health and sustainability of the industry as a
Elisa Kelly sharing a picnic lunch with other NBC attendees
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Will Corby of Mercanta and David Walsh of Marco discuss
what they learned today
whole, we must acknowledge that quality of
life will always be a component of quality in
the cup: the two are inextricable.
Improving social, political, and environmental factors is equally important, then, as direct
investment in productive technologies and
pricing incentives when we discuss enabling
(or inhibiting) farmers’ active participation in
quality coffee markets. Therefore, directly and
indirectly, Coffee Kids’ focus on lives and livelihoods is fundamental to the production (and
availability) of better-quality coffee in the long
run. Our programs in income diversity, capacity building, education, food security, and in
health care aim not to get people out of coffee
but, rather, to help them create their own opportunities for a better, more sustainable coffee
future.
The dialogue emerging through events such
as the Nordic Barista Cup is reassuring, even
inspiring. The turn toward the social and toward relationships in coffee is a huge step in
the right direction. For Coffee Kids, the challenge (and an exciting one, at that) is pushing
the concept of quality in coffee even further
to include not only the field and the producer, but also the family and the wider community. For the family and the community are
inextricably bound in the production of coffee, and it is within these social spheres that
the factors presenting the biggest hurdles to
improving coffee quality reside. Investment
in coffee must be, by definition, investment
in the coffee-growing community.
By providing a space for these considerations
and seeking to deepen conversations and
exchanges with coffee growers, the Nordic
Barista Cup is a forum through which such
investments can be established as the standard. Coffee Kids is delighted and honored to
participate in that conversation.
You can purchase tickets to the 2012 Nordic
Barista Cup and learn more at nordicbaristacup.com/. We hope to see you there next
year!
Elisa Kelly is the development liaison
for Coffee Kids. You can reach her at
[email protected].
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Let’s talk Special Reserve, shall we? Special Reserve coffees are the best that coffee
has to offer -in flavor, farming methods, and regional characteristics
Los Niños Blend is our latest special reserve coffee. As part of this program, we will
donate $10K to Coffee Kids - an organization dedicated to improving the lives of coffee
growing families in Latin America.
Allegro Coffee
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Scotty-Ray from Whole Foods Market Trolley Square and I (Jylle - your Allegro
sherpa) ADORE this coffee. I like it brewed via Hario, as the slow drip highlights the
unique notes of this blend.
S. Taylor is a fine photographer, an espresso expert, and latte art wizard.
$10 from the sale of each book is donated to Coffee Kids. You know you
want it...
Espresso
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With a stunning black interior theme, this 78
page book represents well over 6,000 espresso
drinks created and enjoyed in my own kitchen.
Most of them were for me but a lot were
poured for family and friends. While enjoying
the drinks I also took thousands of digital images, trying to capture the es...
To all of our east coast friends + fans -- if you (or anyone you
know) live in/near/around Brooklyn -- there's a rad bike relay for
Coffee Kids, awesome non-profit who works directly with families
of coffee farmers in Latin America. If ya know of somebody goin,
send us photos of the days events!
BIKE RELAY for COFFEE KIDS
Location: Prospect Park at 15th
Street entrance (Brooklyn, NY)
Time: 2:00PM Sunday, July 10th
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que corra la voz.
don’t miss out.
@coffeekids Thanks! You know we
Batdorf folks love @coffeekids!
Jason Dominy
Our 1st art show in support of
@CoffeeKids! Tomorrow (#Friday)
from 4-7pm at the roastery in
#Thornton, #Colorado. #coffeelove.
Allegro Coffee
I had old tips from my last day at @
IntelliVenice ... so I donated them to
@CoffeeKids. cycleamerica2011.com
Katie O’shea
Coming soon, in collaboration with @
coffeekids , the World Barista Champion Calendar! Featuring 12 dashing
gents to brighten up your 2012!
Square Mile Coffee
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Thanks to our supporters
(Gifts received July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2011)
Sustaining Donor
Benefactor
Patron
CMA, s.p.a.
Starbucks Coffee Company
Matthew Algie & Co. Ltd. (UK and US donor)
Coffee Kids UK *
Sponsor
Allegro Coffee
Aramark Canada Ltd.
Baresso Coffee
Boston Stoker, Inc.
Cibo Espresso Australia
Fres-co System USA, Inc.
InterAmerican Coffee, Inc.
Jamieson Family Foundation
Paragon Coffee Trading Co.
Advocate
Batdorf & Bronson
Peet's Coffee & Tea
Royal Coffee New York, Inc.
Stormans Inc.
Sweet Maria's Coffee Roastery
Village by Village, Combined Federal Campaign
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Friend
Associated Services Company
Baratza
BB Coffee Company
Belmonte Management
Berlin School of Coffee
Brooklyn Roasting Works LLC
Buckmaster Coffee Company
Café Imports
Calvert Social Investment Foundation
Camano Island Coffee Roasters
Club Coffee L.P.
Coffee Bean International
Coffee By Design
Coffee Supreme Ltd
Daybreak Coffee Roasters, Inc
Demus SpA
Filterfresh Piedmont
First Colony Coffee & Tea
Full Circle Exchange
Int’l Women’s Coffee Alliance, Inc.
Kaffee Badilatti & Co. AG
Ken Gabbay Coffee Ltd
Kibbutz Kfar Etzion
Koffie Kàn
Landmark Coffee Beans
Longbottom Coffee & Tea
Market Day
Market Grounds
Market Lane Coffee
Mercury Espresso Bar
Mont Blanc Gourmet
Network For Good
Pacific Coast Coffee Traders LLC
Paramount Coffee Company
Reunion Island Coffee Ltd
Royal Cup Coffee
Rush Roasting Co.
San Giusto Cafe
UK Barista Championship (UK and US donor)
Victoria Coffee
Wilson's Coffee & Tea
Member
1132 Cafe & Catering
Acme Coffee Roasting Company
Alakef Coffee Roasters Inc.
Autocrat Premium Coffee & Syrup
Bagels & Beans
Barossa Coffee Roasters
Behmor, Inc
Cafe del Mundo
Cafe Ditare S.L.
Café Excellence LLC
Cafeology
Caffe Culture
Caffe Ibis Coffee Roasting Co.
Canadian Coffee & Tea Show
Caravan Coffee
CAS Rigano
chicco di caffe
City Bean
Clifton Coffee
Coffee Distributing Corp.
Coffee Extracts & Ingredients
Coffee Republic
Coffee Shop Manager - Redmond
Crema Coffee Company
Cups an Espresso Café
Dekoffiethuiswinkel.nl
Detour Coffee Roasters
Door County Coffee & Tea Company
Esquires Coffee Houses (UK and US donor)
Evolve Research & Consulting
Extract Coffee
Fidalgo Bay Coffee
Fratello Coffee Company
Fremont Coffee Roasters
Gourmet Coffee Specialists Ltd
GSC International
Hunter Bay, LLC
Indigo Coffee Roasters, Inc.
James Gourmet Coffee
JL Hufford Coffee & Tea Company
Joe Java Roasting, Inc
Jura-Capresso
Keet Gooshi Heen Activities
La Salle Catholic College Preparatory
Lexington Coffee Roasting Co.
Little River Roasting Company
Martin’s Coffee
New Harvest Coffee Roasters
O’Henry’s Coffees
Once Over Coffee Bar
Quiet Corner
Redcup Office Café Company Ltd
Rhode Island Foundation
Rubens Kaffee
Schamong-Kaffee
Seattle Drip Coffee
Social Coffee & Tea Company
Sticky Fingers Bakery
Sustainable Harvest
Swan Café
Taylor Maid Farms
Te Aro Coffee
The Boston Tea Party Group Limited
The Fix
The Hot Chocolate Sparrow
The Righteous Bean
The Stick Coffee House and Specialty Roaster
The Wicked Coffee Company
Two Day Coffee Roasters
UK Barista Championships (UK and US donor)
Village Bean
Village Roaster, Ltd.
Volcanic Red Coffees
Wicked Joe Coffee Roasting Company
Yellowstone Coffee Roasters
Zanzibars Coffee Adventure
Supporter
0793267 B.c. Ltd.
1st in Coffee LLC
A Southern Season
Addison Coffee Roasters, Inc.
Agapao Coffee & Tea
Aladdin Coffee
Alaska Klondike Coffee Co.
Alpen Sierra Coffee Co.
Anonymous Donor
Arsaga's Espresso Café
Ashlawn Farm Coffee
Beamer’s Creek Coffee Roasters
Bean Around the World Coffees
Bean Capers Inc. - Citizen Bean
Bean To Heaven
Beverage Service Association
Bill Roth Plastering
Black Fire Pty Ltd TA Ristretto
Black Mesa Coffee Company
Bongo Billy's
Cafe Bar One Ltd
Cafe Evoke Catering
Cafe Fanatic
California Certified Organic Farmers
Carpe Diem Coffee & Tea Company
City Plaza Espresso Cafe
Coastal Roasters
Coffee Duck Enterprise Co. Ltd.
Coffee Exchange
Coffee Express Co.
Coffee Solutions
coffeedetective.com
Dater Montessori
David's Bagels
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Durango Coffee Co.
Eldorado Coffee Roasters
Expocert S.A.
Fante's Kitchen Wares Shop
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Filterfresh Bluegrass
Filterfresh Corporation
Filterfresh Tri State
Firestation Roasters
First Congregational Church
First Drop Canada
Flying M Coffee
Food Service Consultants
Gillies Coffee Co.
Green Fields Market
Hewlett Packard
Holy Spirit Espresso
HP Employee Charitable Giving Program
INTTRA Corporation
Johny’s Java Coffee Company
Jon Chomitz Photography
Jonny’s Java Coffee Company
Just Give .org
Kaffa Roastery/Imagine Experience OY
Kona Blue Coffee & Deli
Michigan State University- Sparty’s
Mission Fish
MLG Properties
Mr. Espresso
Muddy Waters Coffeehouse
My Coffee Guru
Olson Communications, Inc.
Oren's Daily Roast
Orient Church
Orleans Coffee Exchange
Raven Coffee House Inc
Recreational Equipment, Inc.
Red Rooster Coffee Roaster
Roast & Toast
Roast House
Rubra
Rudy and Alice Ramsey Foundation
Standing Stone Coffee Company
Stauf's Coffee Roasters, Inc.
Taylor Insurance and Financial Services Inc.
The Black Bear Micro Roastery
The Raven Wing
The Spice Merchant & Co.
The Treehouse Coffee Shop
Thomas Miller & Co., Inc.
Toper Roasters
True Coffee
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United Way of Larimer County, Inc.
Villere Coffee Pty Ltd
Wayfarer Coffee, LLC
Willoughby's Coffee & Tea, Inc.
Zojo Coffee
Individual Major Donors
Simon Fell
Dan Baumfield
Dana Welsh
Individual Member Donors
Anonymous Donor
David Abedon
Jennifer Adam
Deborah Adams
Kenji Akimoto
Mary Amerata
Gregory Anderson
Aric Aneer
Carol Banman
Kirsten & David Bechtel
Carey Benenson Taussig
Jeffrey Berenson
Josephine Blaber
Bob & Leslie Black
Joy Stratton Blossom
Tara Bowen
Lynn Boyd
James Robert Boyd Jr.
Ellen Bradbury Reid
Sue Brand
Robert & Joan Britt
Crista Brooks
Dorcas Buckser
Kathy Capps
Lawrence Carroll
Liana Cassar
Henry Chang
Doug & Karen Charipper
Eileen & Victor Chieco
Jennifer Christensen
Daniel Cignarella
Jerome & Phyllis Cohen
Annette & John Coleman
Richard Colt
Anne Cooper
Karen Leigh Copeland Dehayes
Julie Craves
Timothy Crowe
Sandra Crowe
Dick & Corky Cutler
Eric Cypert
Jonathan Dagle
Brian Dale
Thanh-Thanh Dang
Rachel Daniels
Edwin De Boer
Frank Defrancesco
Elaine Del Valle
Jane Desforges
Joanna Dewardener
Markus Diekow
Erik Dilling Nielsen
John Dodgion
Charles & Laurel Doherty
David Ebert
Kristin Ebert
Joshua Ebert
Juanita Ebert
Peter Elkins
Bonnie & Alan Epstein
Deborah Espinoza
Robert Estes
Elizabeth Evans
Pascale Evans
Ruth Fabel
David & Anita Fairman
Michael Fairman & Dani Jeffries
Robert Fan
Lois Fay
Mark Federman
Joyce Finlay
Bill Fishbein
Mary Flack
Rj Fortuin
Renee Foster
Benjamin Frey
Laura Fried
Patrizio Frigeri
Mark Gabry
Randy Glass
Gerard Goeke
Carlos Gonzales De Cosio Vargas
Robert Grauberger
Lorraine Guardino
William Guddeck Ii
Karen Halderson
Mark Halliday
Brett Hanson
Kathryn Hardie
Heinrich Hartmann
Paul Hegland
Frederick Heineman
Jeffrey Hendrick
Jim Hoium
Michael Andrew Horan
Lindsey Horrigan
Wendy Hubley
Patti Huhn
Joan & Kenneth Hunt
Paul Jaffe
John Jamison
Judith Johnson
Brian Jones
Ed Juda
Maria Justice
Otto Kampa
Edward Katz
Mark Kennedy
Kerry Kincaid
Bertha Kinsinger
Thomas & Christine Kinzelman
Tracy Klinke
Michael Kovnat
Ronald Kraatz
Lisa & Klaus Kutschke
Jody Lantman
Vicki Lauruhn
Linda Law
Pamela Lawrence
Gray Angela Leow
David Lewis
Ann Liebmann
Robert Lisak
Louis & Patricia Lombardi
Richard Loya
Joseph & Ruth Lux
Kent Lyle
A. L. M.
Christopher Madden
Mark Mahoney
William Mares
Allison Marsales
Beth Martin
Susan Martin
Colleen Mccure-Poulos
Katherine Mcfatridge
Lew Mcgregor
Amy Mcintosh
Marcia & Craig Mckenzie
Matthew Mcqueen
Janet Merrelli
Bob & Diane Meskin
Dater Montessori
Lucy Moore
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Marilyn Moore
Koko Ba Morikawa
Daniel Morris
Linda Mowbray
Virginia Mudd
Fred Mushkat
Susan Musinsky
Phillip Nakamura
Sondra & Bennett Nathan
David Parkhurst
Maggie Partilla
Diane Patterson
Mark Pendergrast
Jeff Pentel
Sheridan Phillips
Gary Piccione
Joseph Ponikowski
William Pottinger
Jeffrey Powers
Kimerly Quillin
Dr. Brian C. Randall & Dr. Mary C. Kemen
Midge Raymond
Christina Reeves
Gerald Reicher
Catia Reis Tsuluhas
Mimi Rena
Caitlin Rentmeester
Anna Maria Richards
W. Riker
Amy Robinson
Ellice Ronsheim
Barbara & Ben Rooks
Alfred Roper
Jill Allyn Rosser & Mark Halliday
Allyson & Peter Sawtell
Rev. Gerald & Eunice Schalk
Terri Schmidt
Aaron Scholten
Eric Schwarzenbach
Mary Jean Sebens
Julia Seidler
Kevin Seymour
Ekongkar Singh Khalsa
Nathan Slabaugh
Anne Smith
Constance Smith
Sharon Keller Smith
Barbara Smyth
Jim & Georgia Snead
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Matthew Sonneborn
Jon Spar
Carol Spawn
Linda Spears
Anne Stanton
Lola Stephens
Bradford Stephens
Diane & Hal Steuber
Sarah Stewart
Joel Stone
Tayla Strader
Ho Suk Ju
Martina & Michael Sullivan
Mia Svendson
Susana Swanson
Paul & Jeanene Syoen
Sharon Talmage
James Thomson
Lori & Dave Tilgner
Marge Titcomb
Richard & Marney Toole
Ally Towle
Rick Trant
Catherine Tucker
Suzy Underwood
Charles & Carol Van Alstine
Donald & Mina Merle Van Cleef
Christina Vela
John Verdult
Theodore Vidimos
Kim Villanueva
Daniela Von Rotz
Adam Wager
Brinegar Ward
Timothy Warren
Mark Wathne
Dianne Weisselberg
Luan Wells
Kenneth & Pamela White
Roger Whittman
Randal & Margaret Wiginton
Paul Wood
Sharon Woods
Marianne Wright
Nancy Wszalek
Miura Yasuhiro
Jennifer Young
Lizzie Zoltowski
Deborah Zuver
* Coffee Kids UK Donors
(Gifts received as included in Coffee Kids UK
donation, July 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011)
Patron
Individual Major
Sponsors
Individual Member
Matthew Algie (UK and US donor)
Shakespeare Coffee Company
Percol Fair Trade and Organic Coffee
Friends
The Estate of Iris Stott
Neil Rosser
Charles Prager
Marylin Tippit
Esquires Coffee Houses (UK and US donor)
UK Barista Championships (UK and US donor)
Exchange Coffee
Rotherham College
Rhode Island Coffee
Members
Capital Coffee Roasters
Coffee & Cocoa International
Coffee Cavern
The Morven Gallery
Federation Coffee
Cream Supplies
Revival Coffee
Beverage Standards Association
First Step Trust SMaRT Venue
Dose Espresso
Limini Coffee
Supporters
Caffe Culture 2010
Specialty Coffee Association of Europe
The Perfect Cup
Flat White
Square Mile Coffee Roasters
Ginger and White
Purbeck Chocolate/Chococo
The Counter Café
The Coffee Plant
The Moving Picture Company
Pavillion Café
Taylor St. Baristas
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