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, Ltd. is a nonprofit charity which maintains low operating costs. Our mission is to raise awareness of, and funds for, the health care needs of rural African Farmers. We have a direct relationship with Sweet Unity Farms Coffee cooperative in Tanzania, Africa. We will make their gourmet coffee available, at discounted pricing, to community based organizations such as PTA's, sports clubs, Pan-Hellenic organizations, church and civic groups.
We will custom design a label with your group's name. Every time one of your supporters purchases a pound of coffee by using our website and clicking on your unique coffee label, three dollars will go to directly your organization. In addition, with the help of the DirectFund Foundation (described below), funds, separate from the funds your group receives, will be used to assist rural African farmers with their pressing health care needs.
"... there is still only 1 doctor for every 25,000 people and one dentist for every 300,000 people. And the rate of children dying before they reach their 5th year of life has been calculated to be 30 times greater than those in developed countries... "
For those who come to our site to purchase our gourmet coffee without a nonprofit in mind, more than three dollars will go towards health care initiatives for the rural farmers.
For more information after you review our site, please call Chris at (631) 404-8217. We will be happy to meet with you and discuss all facets of our operations.
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; he 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 as 25% more than "fair trade" value for their crops.
If we are going to make available African coffee to truly help the farmers, we have to do it right. Simply put, we know that David Robinson, who has lived and worked in Tanzania for two decades, ensures all facets of fair trade and humanitarian outreach are being monitored and executed. We could never guarantee that by dealing with multiple vendor sources out of Tanzania.
Furthermore, the price is right. Gourmet coffee sold by large multinational corporations sometimes goes for $15.00 - $30.00 per pound. Sweet Unity Farms Coffee, which is comparable, if not superior, is going, in this special nonprofit offer, for $10.00 a pound.
In an extension of David's noble commitment to assist the Tanzanian farmers, funds, separate from the funds your group receives, will go to The DirectFund Foundation. The DirectFund Foundation mission, since 1996, has been to prevent premature death and relieve unnecessary pain and suffering in sub-Saharan 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. Funds from Coffeecare will be used for health care initiatives to assist rural farmers in Africa.
If we are going to send funds to help the farmers, we have to do it right. Directfund has been working directly with Bugando Hospital for more than a decade. The funds it receives from Coffeecare will be earmarked for health care initiatives of the rural farmers and go directly to the hospital's bank account.
Bugando Hospital
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 is still only 1 doctor for every 25,000 people and one dentist for every 300,000 people. And the rate of children dying before they reach their 5th year of life has been calculated to be 30 times greater than those in developed countries.
A New Medical School for Africa
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. 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.
The Plan to Assist Rural Farmers
When DirectFund receives funds, it wires them, as stipulated, to the Bugando Hospital bank account or the BUCHS bank account. The Director of Bugando Hospital, Dr. Charles Majinge, will use the funds Coffeecare raises to develop health care initiatives for the rural farmers.
We will custom design a label with your group's name. Every time one of your supporters purchases a pound of coffee by using our website and clicking on your unique coffee label, three dollars will go to directly your organization. In addition, with the help of the DirectFund Foundation (described below), funds, separate from the funds your group receives, will be used to assist rural African farmers with their pressing health care needs.
"... there is still only 1 doctor for every 25,000 people and one dentist for every 300,000 people. And the rate of children dying before they reach their 5th year of life has been calculated to be 30 times greater than those in developed countries... "
For those who come to our site to purchase our gourmet coffee without a nonprofit in mind, more than three dollars will go towards health care initiatives for the rural farmers.
For more information after you review our site, please call Chris at (631) 404-8217. We will be happy to meet with you and discuss all facets of our operations.
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; he 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 as 25% more than "fair trade" value for their crops.
If we are going to make available African coffee to truly help the farmers, we have to do it right. Simply put, we know that David Robinson, who has lived and worked in Tanzania for two decades, ensures all facets of fair trade and humanitarian outreach are being monitored and executed. We could never guarantee that by dealing with multiple vendor sources out of Tanzania.
Furthermore, the price is right. Gourmet coffee sold by large multinational corporations sometimes goes for $15.00 - $30.00 per pound. Sweet Unity Farms Coffee, which is comparable, if not superior, is going, in this special nonprofit offer, for $10.00 a pound.
DirectFund - 100% of funds received go directly to the mission
In an extension of David's noble commitment to assist the Tanzanian farmers, funds, separate from the funds your group receives, will go to The DirectFund Foundation. The DirectFund Foundation mission, since 1996, has been to prevent premature death and relieve unnecessary pain and suffering in sub-Saharan 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. Funds from Coffeecare will be used for health care initiatives to assist rural farmers in Africa.
If we are going to send funds to help the farmers, we have to do it right. Directfund has been working directly with Bugando Hospital for more than a decade. The funds it receives from Coffeecare will be earmarked for health care initiatives of the rural farmers and go directly to the hospital's bank account.
Bugando Hospital
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 is still only 1 doctor for every 25,000 people and one dentist for every 300,000 people. And the rate of children dying before they reach their 5th year of life has been calculated to be 30 times greater than those in developed countries.
A New Medical School for Africa
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. 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.
The Plan to Assist Rural Farmers
When DirectFund receives funds, it wires them, as stipulated, to the Bugando Hospital bank account or the BUCHS bank account. The Director of Bugando Hospital, Dr. Charles Majinge, will use the funds Coffeecare raises to develop health care initiatives for the rural farmers.
Letter in Support of coffeecare.us
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Up-Country International Products, Inc.
75 Varick Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
April 1, 2010
Re: Chris Petrosino and coffeecare.us
Dear Coffee Lover:
We have known Chris Petrosino for close to a decade and are familiar with the charity he founded, The DirectFund Foundation. We are supportive of Chris' business / charitable model of selling coffee grown by Sweet Unity Farms in Tanzania, Africa. To that end, coffeecare.us has been enlisted as a certified distributor of the coffee we import directly from the farmers in Tanzania.
We look forward to the opportunity of making our coffee available to you in support of coffeecare.us. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at orders@upcountryinternational.com or 212-239-3543.
Sincerely,
Jerry Lewis,
Managing Partner