Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The beginnings

              This summer Project2Love will be journeying to Managua, Nicaragua and surrounding areas to partner with the Hueck family who have four coffee farms there. This will be the first international trip for Project2Love. The surrounding community has great needs in the areas of health, spirituality, and education. These farms are known as the leaders in social responsibility and one farm is ran by 'Women's hands.' Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere above Haiti, according to the U.S. Department of State and about 46% of the population lives on less than $1.15 a day. By going to Nicaragua we hope to create an ongoing partnership and relationship with the families involved on the farms and the surrounding community by different avenues of support. Our goal is to support women in coffee projects with our Project2Love program.      
            Project2Love was born to promote coffee grown and nurtured by women with a desire to provide a secure and sustainable future for them and their families. Our goal is to enhance the lives of women in global coffee communities by creating a channel for distributing their coffee as well as other products. One of the farms that we will be visiting in Nicaragua is run by women and we seek to support them. Our mission is to support our sisters from seed to cup; to buy, roast, and sell their coffees in the US market.  
            This all about connecting our world here in Northern California, to their world in the mountains of Nicaragua. We also have coffee we are selling from El Dorado Roasting Co. where part of the proceeds will go to support women in coffee projects, help us get to Nicaragua and provide materials to enhance their local community.

             If you purchase coffee online through http://www.eldoradoroasting.com/ online shop they will donate part of the proceeds to our trip and projects over there. Just write 'Project2Love' in the comment section.

Peace and Love
Hannah