Coffee Drinkers, Wake Up!

The exorbitant prices you pay for your designer cappuccino, or even your jar of Nescafe do not benefit our sisters and brothers in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the other forty-seven coffee producing countries of the world. Though coffee usually sells on the world markets for some $1.00 per pound, small coffee farmers usually receive between $0.30 and $0.50 per pound. This amounts to neither a fair price nor a living wage. Ask for Fair Trade Certified Coffee at your favorite cafe, restaurant, and grocery store. (Safeway brand and Chock Full O Nuts use Fair Trade beans, as do many smaller brands and distributors.)

By purchasing Fair Trade Certified coffee, you ensure that participating co-ops of small coffee farmers in twenty countries world wide receive $1.26 per pound. This higher income allows them access to health care, education, electricity and sometimes even consumer goods, luxuries previously far beyond their grasp.

My friends, here's an opportunity for you, in your everyday lives, to affect an enormous, a transforming change in the lives of many thousands of your fellow men. Join me and concerned citizens across the U.S., Canada, and Europe in supporting The Fair Trade Coffee Campaign.

For more information, contact:

Fair Trade Certified Coffee Campaign

2017 Mission St , Rm 303

San Francisco, CA 94110

(415) 255-7296

deborah@globalexchange.org

http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee/

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