Does Coffee Kids engage in emergency and disaster relief work?
To the extent possible, we try to help when crises arise in the coffee-growing world. In 1998, in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, Coffee Kids was able to channel $17,500 in direct relief funds to communities in Nicaragua. Following the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Southern Asia, Coffee Kids raised more than $320,000 and formed a partnership with ForesTrade to provide much-needed disaster relief services to families in Sumatra’s coffee-growing region of Aceh. In 2005, Coffee Kids helped raise funds for coffee-growing communities in Guatemala and Mexico affected by Hurricane Stan.
