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)
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