The Coffee Trust

“Prior to filing the form 990, it is reviewed by the board of directors.”

“At board of director meetings, the policy of conflict of interest is discu ssed. To date, there have been no conflicts of interest.”

“Officer compensation is reviewed and approved by the board of directors.”

“Officer compensation is reviewed and approved by the board of directors.”

“Documents are available upon request through the organization.”

“Following is a summary of our program during 2019 in providing a wide array of educational and charitable programs to educate impoverished farming families across the globe who reside in communities with potentially lucrative crops such as coffee, tea, chocolate and sugar. Honey program, copichajulense the program goals are to train the copichajulense beekeepers in apiculture management in order to improve the skills of the beekeepers to 1) maintain the excellent quality honey that is being produced and 2) to significantly increase overall honey production to add to the beekeepers' family income, most of whom are coffee producers and members of the coffee cooperative, asociacin chajulense. The training method employed is called campesino a campesino which promotes a shared, lateral learning process from farmer to farmer. Results - highlights the honey program serves 150 producers who manage 3,800 hives, which is an average of 28 hives per producer. The team responsible for the training includes 2 technicians and 5 promoters. Training takes place through monthly visits to the beekeepers by the promoters and technicians. An expert in the campesino a campesino training procedures was the advisor through the completion of the 2019 training program in december 2019. 100 new langstrom beehives were purchased as part of the effort to replace all 3,800 beehives with more efficient beehives that compliment the natural organized activity of the bees. The new hives alone will contribute to an increase in productivity per hive. Copichajulense is a fair trade, organic honey cooperative. The organic nature of its work contributes to the quality of the honey produced and the increase in income that organic honey generates for the cooperative. Maintaining organic certification is critical to copichajulense's success. The program organizes the preparation for the annual organic inspection, which was successfully achieved. The coffee trust's role in supporting organic certification will end when copichajulense takes over complete responsibility for managing the preparation for organic certification on its own. 2 containers 72-660 lb./each container were exported to germany in 2019. To increase income copichajulense was looking for more lucrative markets to export its honey, the coffee trust worked with santa fe coffee works to import copichajulense's honey into the us marketplace where copichajulense had yet to enter. 12-660 barrels were exported to usa through an agreement with santa fe coffee works for which copichajulense earned and additional 20% above their standard fair trade, organic price. During the year, copichajulense participated in a beekeeping tour in which 19 copichajulense promoters and board members from copichajulense visited antigua, alotenango and suchitepequez. In each location the copichajulense team was trained in the following topics: best beekeeping practices, queen renewal as key strategy, beekeeping materials, pollen traps, queen rearing techniques approximately 90 new, young beekeepers will be joining copichajulense through a program promoted by catholic relief services (crs) that is increasing the number of new apiaries in guatemala. Microcredit and textiles, chajulense de mujeres highlights: the coffee trust has worked with chajulense de mujeres to change the micro-credit component from an association into a cooperative. The law in guatemala does not allow an association to act as a bank, however, the law does allow a cooperative to act as a bank. This is an important next step the women's savings & micro-credit group as it further develops itself into a financial institution to benefit the poor in the ixil region. The coffee trust supports the change to move the women's groups' administration from asoc. Chajulense de mujeres to coop chajulense de mujeres through the advice of a financial expert. The coffee trust worked with santa fe coffee works to purchase hand-woven, indigenous women's textiles into the us throu”

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