Changing the World with Coffee

In a sermon a few weeks ago I talked about how even the decisions you make about what coffee to buy can have an effect about poverty around the world. Fairly traded coffee allows for coffee growers to actually make enough money to stay out of poverty.

I was reading today about one coffee distributer who is taking this idea one step further. Not only does this company pay fair trade prices for the coffee they sell, they are also sharing their profits, returning more money to the farmers. This money can make a huge impact in the areas that are growing the coffee and is another step toward ending the cycle of poverty. Read more about it here: Dean's Beans New Profit Sharing Program.

This is not necessarily an endorsement of Dean's Beans, though I really like their coffee and find them very reasonable. I just wanted to show you another way the purchasing decisions that we make can have a positive impact on the world.

peace,

will