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Organization Helps Change The World With Coffee

• Simply by purchasing coffee, you can make a difference in the world every day.

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Simply by purchasing coffee, you can make a difference in the world every day.

• Heifer Hope Blend, a new organic coffee from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Vermont, will help small-scale coffee growers in Guatemala improve their lives. Heifer International, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to eliminating hunger across the world, will receive forty cents from each bag purchased.
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• The collaboration between Heifer International and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters will provide much-needed support to disadvantaged farmers in the La Voz district of San Juan la Laguna and other Guatemalan communities.

Coffee prices are so low these days that many small-scale producers are unable to make a living from the crop. Farmers at La Voz will learn to grow certified organic, shade-grown premium coffee with Heifer's aid. Green Mountain Coffee then purchases the coffee from the farmers at fair-trade prices, ensuring that the farmers receive a greater salary than they would on the open market, and roasts and packages it as Heifer Hope Blend.

Farmers will be paid more, and Heifer will be able to help more low-income families.

Heifer also helps coffee-growing households diversify their sources of income by providing livestock such as cows, goats, and other revenue-producing farm animals with the money raised through Heifer Hope Blend. Better diet, housing, health care, and education are all benefits of having more money.

Heifer International has been assisting millions of disadvantaged families in achieving self-sufficiency since 1944.

delivering livestock and environmentally sustainable agricultural training Heifer then invites the families to "carry on the gift" by donating the progeny of their animals to others, so assisting in the uplift of entire communities.

Green Mountain Coffee has made a commitment to environmental stewardship and social responsibility.

In addition, each year it distributes 5% of its pre-tax profits to charity causes.

"We are truly excited about partnering with socially and environmentally responsible corporations such as Green Mountain Coffee,"

Cynthia Hester, Heifer's director of corporate relationships, explained the situation. Nonprofits must discover innovative ways to persuade businesses to extend their corporate principles to the nonprofit sector.