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Just Haiti works with an association of subsistence Haitian coffee growers and their families in Baradères, Haiti, to bring Kafe Lespwa, their high-quality, organic, shade-grown Arabica coffee, to North American consumers.
In 2010, 49 cents of each dollar that U.S. consumers spent on Kafe Lespwa—Creole for "Coffee of Hope"—went to the subsistence farmers who grew the beans.
Shade-grown coffee, grown for export and offered to consumers at a fair price, may represent the best hope a typical Haitian coffee farmer holds for the future.
In that future, farm families can break the stranglehold of poverty and violence that have choked the just development of rural Haiti for hundreds of years. (READ MORE)
More Proverbs From Lacay
From : http://haitianproverbs.com/
Woch nan dio pa konnen doule woch nan soley.
The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun.
Bwe dio nan ve, respekte ve.
(If you) drink water in the glass, respect the glass.
Si se Bondye ki voye. Li peya fre ou.
If it is God who sends you, he'll pay your expenses.
Sa ou fe, se li ou we.
What you do is what you see.
Se met ko kiveye ko.
It is the owner of the body who looks out for the body.
Bondye do ou. fe pa ou, M a fe pa M.
God says do your part and I'll do mine.
Ou we sa ou genyen, ou pa konn sa ou rete.
You know what you've got, but you don't know what's coming.
Famn se kajou. plis li vye, plis li bon.
Woman is like mahogany, the older the better.
Lanne pase toujou pi bon.
Past years are always better.
Sa k rive koukouloulou a, ka rive kakalanga tou.
What happens to the turkey can happen to the rooster too.
Nanpwen lapriye ki pa gen "Amen."
There is no prayer which does not have an "Amen".
Anpre dans tanbou lou.
After the dance the drum is heavy.
Proverbs from Lacay
From : http://haitianproverbs.com/
Sonje lapli ki leve mayi ou.
Remember the rain that made your corn grow.
Moun pa se dra.
A protector is like a cloak.
Nan tan grangou patat pa gen po .
In times of famine, sweet potatoes have no skin.
Ou konn kouri, ou pa konn kache.
You know how to run, but you don’t know how to hide.
Se bon kè krapo ki fè l san tèt.
It is because the toad is too kindhearted that he has no intelligence.
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