You can make a difference in the world every day, simply by purchasing coffee.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters of Vermont is the introduction of Heifer Hope Blend, a new organic coffee, whose sales contribute to the lives of small coffee producers in Guatemala. Forty cents of every bag is purchased Heifer International, a nonprofit organization that will be given to the fight against hunger in the world.
The partnership between Heifer and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters will provide support to poor farmers in the region of La Voz, San Juan La Laguna and other local needs in Guatemala.
Coffee prices are now so low that many farmers are not living the culture of coffee. With the help of Heifer, La Voz farmers get organic certification, shade grown coffee producers upscale. Green Mountain Coffee and the coffee is purchased from farmers at fair trade prices – a guaranteed minimum wage which is higher than what farmers come to the mainstream market – and roast and package as Heifer Hope Blend.
The farmers earn a high price and Heifer will expand its work to poorer families.
With money donated by Heifer Hope Blend, Heifer also helps coffee farming families diversify their livelihoods by providing livestock – cows, goats and other farm animals that produce income. This additional income means better nutrition, housing, health care and education.
Since 1944, Heifer has millions of poor families move to independence by helping with the cattle and ecological agricultural training. Heifer request then forwarded to the family, “the gift” by donating their animals to the offspring of others, thereby freeing entire communities out of poverty.
Green Mountain Coffee is committed to social responsibility and the environment, and made the surrender of five per cent of pretax profits to charitable causes to support.
“We’re really excited to be partnering with socially and environmentally responsible companies, like Green Mountain Coffee,” said Cynthia Hester, Director of Heifer partnerships with businesses. “It is important that nonprofit organizations to find new ways to extend the promotion of the company, its values in the nonprofit world.”
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Green Mountain Coffee From Around The World
Monday, July 5th, 2010Whether you are the best tasting coffee with unmatched flavor of coffee commercially available or browse through some of the most exciting coffee tastes you could ever find, Green Mountain Coffee to your wishes. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Green Mountain, flows from places where coffee is grown in its best condition, so every coffee drinker the best experience. Green Mountain Coffee from regions of the world where coffee beans are grown in an excellent condition. In African countries like Kenya and Ethiopia, the region of South Asia countries of Indonesia, Green Mountain Roasters brings the best in their product. If you think that was the birthplace of coffee, the cradle of civilization, then you are to believe that Ethiopia is simply the ideal place for a perfect coffee. This ancient land is assumed to be the Garden of Eden, where the Green Mountains discovered precious coffee beans. Kenya, where coffee is sold at a higher level. So if the world thinks are grown in Kenya as the site of the best coffees, the Green Mountains will think it so good. Kenyan coffee is that coffee drinkers are likely to want a good cup of coffee. Green Mountain Travel in the far Southeast Asia to find the islands of Indonesia to unique coffee in three unique regions. Green Mountain takes place in Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and coffee for a distinctive taste and feel in Asia. Green Mountain Roasters is committed to providing the best coffee beans in the world, lest they miss parts of North and South America, where coffee farmers to devote his life to the perfection of coffee plants. Green Mountain Roasters recognizes the quality of coffee beans in countries like Colombia, especially in the south-west, which is commonly known in the region of Popayan in Colombia. Green Mountain also appreciate good quality coffee beans in Costa Rica. Coffee from this country is known as the Costa Rica Peaberry Select. Peaberry But why? Coffee cherries are known to produce two beans. Peaberry product against one. And not everything is as Peaberry carefully selected for them is one of the coffee is precious. Composed of a different part of the tradition of the Green Mountain is the use of Kona coffee. This type of coffee has a mild but rich in flavor and aroma. Balance describes the best Kona coffee with a fresh aftertaste. In Mexico, Green Mountain is also exploring the possibility of growing quality coffee beans. Mexico is a major producer of coffee beans in the world, which has cost some of the best coffee ever. For Green Mountains, Mexican coffee comes from the south-east along the Sierra. Coffee is the diversity, why Green Mountain also buys coffee from Guatemala. In this part of the coffee world with significant differences have increased in each district. These differences in the culture of Guatemalan coffee makes it unique, even when it is compared with the coffee from the same country. For many, the infamous Manchu Picchu Peru. But the Green Mountains, is Peru, where to find that organic coffee is cultivated by the descendants of the Incas. Behind this global effort, the commitment of the Green Mountain Coffee offers a good taste easily available to everyone, without having to visit these countries. For, to visit with every sip of Green Mountain Coffee is like the world.