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Brazil 'Cafe Femenino' Organic/Fair Trade
Papaya fruit, sweet malt, and earthy flavors form a light body and clean finish in this fair trade, organic coffee that comes from the Poco Fondo cooperative, an associate of small-scale farmers located in the state of Minas Gerais, in Southwestern Brazil.
Altitude: 900m - 1200m
Type: Arabica - Mundo Novo, Catuai
Processing: Natural and dry processing
Café Femenino beans are the first and only coffee beans grown exclusively by women farmers.
What makes Cafe Femenino different from other fair trade projects?
- The
social impacts of the Cafe Femenino project are remarkable. High abuse
rates toward women are decreasing in rural farming communities.
- Many girls are now being educated. Prior to Cafe Femenino, it was common practice to educate only the boys in the family.
- Families
are slowly rising out of poverty and creating a better life because for
the first time, women are in charge of their own money and their
family's economics.
- Within
the Cafe Femenino model - and in the spirit of full circle philanthropy
- roasters, retailers, and consumers are able to support women's
centers in their own communities.
As
a participating roaster in the Café Femenino project, Stauf’s Coffee
Roasters is proud to commit 20% from Café Femenino sales to the Griswold Residency of YWCA Columbus,
Ohio. Since 1886, YWCA Columbus has provided affordable housing for
women in transition. Today, the historic Griswold Building in downtown
Columbus is home to more than 100 low-income women at any given
time—many who are beginning their first jobs; recovering from
drug-related, alcohol-related, and mental illnesses; or pursuing their
education.
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