Initiatives

Famicafé

Fundación Familias Cafeteras, Famicafé (Coffee Families Foundation) is a registered Colombian non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to improving the lives of families in the coffee growing region of Colombia. Famicafe is a hands-on, on the ground, organization that invests in education, job creation and organic farming initiatives.

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Fruandes

Fruandes Ltda. is a Colombian Fair Trade Organization started by Level Ground Trading in 2002. Seed capital, business expertise and training were supplied in order to establish a company that would provide a fair market for fruit grown by small-scale farmers and employment for disadvantaged women in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Traceability to Origin Project

In 2005, Level Ground Trading and Juan Velez, a Colombian agronomist, began to work closely with twenty-five small-scale coffee farming families who grow Café San Miguel with several objectives in mind:

• Pay premium prices for their coffee based on cup quality and socio-economic conditions
• Offer technical assistance in organic farming methods
• Transfer knowledge of cup quality to farmers
• Invest in education for their children
• Create a direct link from producers to consumers

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Tanzanian Hope Project

Mamas at the Mlowo coffee milling plant near Mbeya, Tanzania participate in a micro-insurance plan funded by Level Ground Trading. The plan covers basic medical care for over 100 mamas and their families at the Mbeya Hospital.