The Gift Card

Coffee Lover — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:20:19 +0000

Zayne and I won the Roll the Brim to Win Video contest on Facebook and received a $50 Tim Horton’s gift card in the mail!
This is our Thank You video!

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2009 Fair Trade, Nicaragua Coffee Farmers #3: Organic coffee beans, Nicaraguan women respected

Coffee Lover — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:40:00 +0000

Two Northern Michigan University (NMU) students – Lisa McCarthy of Greenville, WI and Sarah Swanson of Rapid River, MI – are giving presentations across the Upper Peninsula on their recent Lutheran World Relief trip to Nicaragua during which they met with coffee farmers and learned about fair trade.
This is the first of several excerpts from their presentation.
In part three, the students describe how the women of Nicaragua are treated with respect, the importance of families and the environmental protection efforts of one Nicaraguas organic farmers.
The NMU students among 13 Americans on Lutheran World Relief Study Tour entitled NICARAGUA: Pour Justice to the Brim from January 5-12, 2009
The group visited the capitol of Managua, and the cities/villages of Matagalpa, Jinotega and La Reyna.
Fair trade ensures fair wages, and protects women’s rights and human rights plus fights poverty.
Arriving at the peak of the coffee harvest, the students visited many aspects of the industry including dry mills, wet mills and coffee cooperatives.
They spoke on January 13, 2008 to a group at the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Marquette, MI.

Related links:

LWR Study Trips

http://www.lwr.org/study

Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) at Northern Michigan University (NMU)

http://www.nmulutherans.org

http://www.nmulutherans.org/newsletter.html#fragment-5

http://www.lakesuperiorinterfaith.com

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)

http://www.elca.org

Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS)

http://www.nglsynod.org

http://www.nglsynod.org/about-our-synod.html

LWR Study Tour on January 5-12, 2009 – NICARAGUA: Pour Justice to the Brim:

http://www.lwr.org/study/nica

Fair Trade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fairtrade_Certification_Mark

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade

http://www.crsfairtrade.org/assets/fair-trade-timeline.pdf

http://www.fairtrade.net

http://www.transfairusa.org

http://www.usworker.coop/front

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fair_Trade_Organization

Equal Exchange

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Exchange

http://www.equalexchange.coop/fair-trade

http://www.equalexchange.coop

Videos

http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/2007/03/12/make-your-sweet-tooth-an-equal-exchange/

http://www.equalexchange.coop/new-video

SolCafé

http://www.vianica.com/activity/122/visit-to-the-solcafe-coffee-processing-plant

http://schweisguth.org/~melissa/nicaragua/solcafe.html

CECOCAFEN

http://www.equalexchange.coop/profile-of-cecocafen-in-nicaragua

http://www.transfairusa.org/pdfs/profiles/Cecocafen-Nica.PDF

http://www.alternativa3.com/2006/productores.php?id=150&idioma=en

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/cecocafen

Nicaragua coffee cooperatives

http://fairtrade.change.org/blog/view/face_of_fair_trade_la_fem_coffee_cooperative

http://crs.org/nicaragua/women-coffee-coop

http://www.equalexchange.coop/worker-owned

http://www.usaid.gov/stories/nicaragua/cs_nc_coffee.html

http://justcoffee.coop/en/geography/nicaragua

http://www.nicaraguasc.org.uk/partners/index.htm

Center for Global Education

http://globaled.us

http://www.globaled.us/wwcu

http://www.globaled.us/wwcu/state.asp?region=Michigan

Fair Trade Principals

http://www.kaldi.com/fair-trade-coffee.htm.

Email LWR Coffee Project & Fair Trade
fairtrade at lwr.org

Update Fair Trade projects/participate in LWR Action Center:

http://action.lwr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=SignUp

Lutheran World Relief & Fair Trade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_World_Relief

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/justice.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/lwt.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/elsal.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/elcanr.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/faith.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/cup.asp

http://www.lwr.org/coffee/justice.asp

http://www.equalexchange.coop/LWR-Delegation-to-Nicaragua

http://www.lwr.org/fairtrade/resources.asp

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The Gift Card

2009 Fair Trade, Nicaragua Coffee Farmers #3: Organic coffee beans, Nicaraguan women respected