Question: Can a cup of coffee raise immediate funding for your nonprofit, assist rural farmers in Africa and provide doctors for Africa?
Answer: Yes!
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coffeecare.us is a for profit venture with an eye towards charity. Through American based Up Country International Products, we are a distributor of Tanzanian gourmet coffee produced by Sweet Unity Farms in Tanzania, Africa.
coffeecare.uswill make this gourmet
coffee available at a discounted pricing to nonprofit
organizations such as PTA's,
Pan-Hellenic organizations, church and civic groups.
We provide a
reasonably priced coffee sample and designer mug that will mean
instant funding for your nonprofit mission. This is a "win, win, win"
situation.
The farmers in Africa will benefit, healthcare in Africa
will benefit, and your nonprofit mission will benefit!
And here's an additional bonus.
When your membership and supporters buy the sample package they will surely order more coffee in the future. Your nonprofit will receive funding from those sales as well. Like we said, A win, win, win situation!
David Robinson, A Prince of Men
Sweet Unity Farms Coffee is a cooperative of over 400
small-scale coffee farmers founded by David Robinson, son of baseball
great Jackie Robinson. David has made his home in Tanzania for the past
two decades and leads a social mission of growing coffee from seed to
cup. The cooperative is located in the southern highlands of
Tanzania, East Africa, in the region called Mbeya.
As coffee is
Tanzania's largest foreign exchange earner, Sweet Unity Farms Coffee is
an effort to change a bleak reality and create a voice, window, and
means of joining the world community. David, a rural farmer himself,
provides the farmers as much as25% more than "fair trade" value for
their crops. You can place your full trust in the fact that all coffee purchased will directly benefit the rural farmers in Africa.
DirectFund - 100% of funds raised go directly to the mission
In an extension of David's noble commitment to assist the
Tanzanian farmers, a portion of the profits from your purchase will go to The DirectFund Foundation.
The DirectFund Foundation mission is to prevent premature death and relieve unnecessary pain and suffering in sub-Saharan Africa. 100% of funds received go directly to Bugando
Hospital and Bugando University College of Health Sciences.
Located on
the shores of Lake Victoria in Mwanza, Tanzania. Bugando Hospital is an
800 bed hospital serving 10 million people. In the late 1990's Bugando had only ten to
fifteen fully trained doctors on hand and limited access to medicines
and surgical supplies. Due to your support, those ratios are changing and the medicine situation is improving. Yet there are is only 1 doctor for every 40,000 people and one dentist for every 300,000 people.
Bugando University College of Health Sciences (BUCHS) is
a fully accredited medical school that started in 2002. BUCHS is located within the
hospital and currently has medical students in a fully accredited five year program. The program is designed to create doctors for Africa.
Funds sent by The DirectFund
Foundation have been used to purchase specialized pediatric cancer
medicines, anesthetics, beddings/linens, food for the patients, staff and medical school students. Funds have also been used to help build the medical school that
operates within the hospital as well as training doctors for
Africa.
In five years, BUCHS has grown from ten MDs to nearly 800 students across eight disciplines.
postgraduate residency (five specialties):
undergraduate MD; and diploma courses in nursing, laboratory science, pharmacy, anesthesiology, assistant medical officer and radiography.
There are currently 277 medical students, 33 post-graduates, 89 AMO students, 101 medical laboratory students, 122 nursing students, 41 radiology students, 98 pharmacy students, and 16 anesthesiology students.