Good Coffee for a Good Cause

The Glendale United Methodist Women COFFEE PROJECT supports UMCOR by serving fairtrade coffee/tea duing fellowship time.  Products are also offered for sale with proceeds benefiting relief to world hunger.

• Coffee is big business-the second most heavily traded commodity in the world.
• Some 20 million people depend on coffee for their livelihood.
• The chain of events that leads from the coffee farm to your cup is long and expensive. Benefits to the small farmer: Few. Many are trapped in poverty.
• One reason for this trap is: intermediaries, called "coyotes" in Latin American countries, offer coffee farmers the lowest possible prices to inflate their own profits.
• Fair trade spreads the bounty of a rich crop among those who grow the crop, helping them build a better future for their families and communities. "By drinking a cup of fairly traded coffee you're giving small farmers in poor countries an opportunity to plan their own futures," affirms Gabriel Ulomi of a coffee cooperative in Tanzania.

• As consumers, we spend more than $16 billion dollars a year on chocolate alone.
• Fifty percent of cocoa comes to the US from the Ivory Coast, West Africa-where children as young as five years old are trafficked into slavery and forced to work on cocoa farmsFair trade is the alternative.

Who is UMCOR?

UMCOR responds to natural or civil disasters that are interruptions of such magnitude that they overwhelm a community's ability to recover on its own.