Our partners in Colombia
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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.
Level Ground Trading invests Direct Fair Trade premiums paid for Café San Miguel coffee beans to Famicafé. The impact of these funds include:
- 2007 school scholarships: 118
- 2007 university scholarships: 14
- Funding for Hogar Pro-Juventud, a boarding house for rural students attending high-school in Andes, Colombia
- Joint educational projects with Hogar Juvenil Campesino and 32 rural schools
- Support to coffee farming families in crisis through a benevolent fund
- School scholarships and health benefits for the families of women working at Fruandes fruit processing plant in Bogotá, Colombia.
