Many small coffee farmers, some twenty million in South America and Africa, often struggle just to make a simple living.  Many lack access to adequate health care and education for their children.  Many are trapped in hand to mouth poverty.  Cocoa and coffee are big business and the low prices paid to the small scale farmers have kept them in poverty.  This project invites us to use coffee and cocoa that is fairly traded.  Lutheran World Relief's fair trade partner is Equal Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative committed to the principles of fair trade.  As we consider the impact of debt on people in the developing world, we can also consider the impact of our own purchasing choices.  Let your purchasing choice be to order some fair-trade coffee or chocolate. 

Coffee will now be ordered approximately every 3 months.  Order forms found on the back of the "Trinity Lutheran" newsletter.