We are commited to having a sustainable impact by strengthening local family, community, and ethnic social and business networks.
Green Earth Coffee supports the medical work of Palmas de Mamre Foundation along the Sarapiquà and San Juan Rivers where dozens of lives have been saved and many have received needed emergency medical and dental work in places where there is neither doctor nor dentist. Green Earth Coffee works close with coffee cooperatives and farmers to help them provide preventative and curative medical assistence to needy migratory coffee pickers of the Guaymi tribe who come by the hundreds to the famous Tarrazu coffee producing region.
Most coffee farmers are forced to sell to large corporations and do not have much control over where their coffee goes after it leaves the farm. By working closely with our coffee farmers and being attentive to their needs, Green Earth Coffee is striving to help our farmers have more participation in the processing and marketing of their precious coffee beans. This gives the coffee grower more potential buyers and helps him receive a better price for his coffee.
We are encouraging all of our growers to follow the highest fair trade and ethical coffee standards. We are committed to paying our producers and pickers just wages even exceeding the fair trade requirements.
By supporting small, organic, ecological farmers and micro-processing plants (and helping them achieve better market access), we help keep profits in the local economy.
We are working with the Maleku Indians in Costa Rica by providing them with market access for their ethnic arts and crafts. Also, two dollars of every bag of our Tarrazu Maleku Reserve coffee is donated to the Indians to help them permantly restore tribal ownership to the lands that have been legally set apart, but never purchased by the Costa Rican national government.
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