12 Partners - 5 Countries

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12 Partners - 5 Countries
Coffee Kids works with 12 partners in five
countries, including Mexico in North America
Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica in Central
America and Peru in South America.
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Coffee and Poverty
Coffee farmers earn as little as 4 cents per
pound for coffee they pick by hand. Over 25
million people around the world are totally
dependent on coffee as their sole source of
income. For many of these families, coffee is not
enough.
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Coffee and Poverty
Coffee Kids helps communities create programs in
health care, education, economic diversification
and other community-based projects.
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Coffee Kids partners help families reduce their
dependence on the annual coffee harvest. In this
photo, a young girl from Mexico shows the harvest
from her familys organic garden.
Life in coffee-farming communities
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Coffee Kids helps a Costa Rican organization
provide scholarships to students so they can
continue their studies. Here students make their
way down rough dirt roads to their school.
Life in coffee-farming communities
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Many schools are one room and all of the classes
share the same teacher and space. Coffee Kids
helps communities in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
build better schools and purchase supplies.
Life in coffee-farming communities
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Students often spend part of their day studying
and then help their family with chores at home.
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Some of Coffee Kids partners working in
Nicaragua and Mexico are helping children and
adults learn how to save money and manage their
personal finances. By learning to manage their
resources, families are better able to prepare
for the future.
Life in coffee-farming communities
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Grupo Niños del Café, Ixcapantla, Mexico
The Board of Directors
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The Grupo Niños del Café gather to make deposits
into their savings accounts once a week. When
they finish grade school, many of the students
will use their savings to pay for high school and
sometimes college.
Life in coffee-farming communities
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In some towns, the whole family works to save
money for the future.
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The savings program is just one of the efforts we
sponsor. To learn more about how Coffee Kids
helps coffee-farming families improve the quality
of their lives, please visit our Web site.

• www.coffeekids.org