Café Justo - Just Coffee
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Goal:
Café Justo is a coffee grower cooperative based in Salvador Urbina, Chiapas, Mexico – a ministry of the PCUSA Border Ministry Frontera de Cristo. They market a pure, organic coffee, which is grown, harvested, and marketed in the spirit of justice and providing incentives for people to remain on their family lands. Their goal is to employ members of the community in the agriculture, production and management/administrative roles to create a sustainable, local business. |
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Mission:
Café Justo’s mission is to deliver the highest quality, organic, environmentally conscious, fresh roasted coffee to customers at a price that is fair and just. They work to create a bond between the members of the coffee growing community in Salvador Urbina and their customers throughout the world.
Story:
Café Justo began with a discussion between the PCUSA Border Ministry, Frontera de Cristo, and the small coffee growers of Salvador Urbina, to determine how best to provide a living wage to the coffee growers. This resulted in the organization of those growers into cooperatives who would grow, harvest, roast, and market their own coffee thus shifting the profits from large, international companies to the members of the cooperative. This effort started with just one cooperative. Currently there are five co-ops supporting 115 families. Two are in Chiapas, one in Veracruz and one in Nayarit.
The financial benefits of Café Justo are significant when compared to Fair Trade coffee or local purchases. It is also easy to see the impact this business has on migration. The people involved in producing the coffee are now building concrete homes with access to electricity and water. They are no longer trying to immigrate into the U.S. to find jobs. The value of this business to other residents of Salvador Urbina is also clear as the profits earned by the farmers are used to purchase goods and services provided by others in the community. Your coffee purchase is having a direct and dramatic effect on this community and others. The cooperative members and community are putting aside their differences to provide an excellent, chemical free, environmentally friendly product and business.
How Can You Help?
1. Purchase your coffee after church during fellowship on the second and fourth Sundays each month. You can purchase caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee in a medium or bold roast as beans or ground coffee. 100% of the money from our sales goes to the coffee cooperatives.
2. Contact Tommy and Lee Ann Calhoun to volunteer to sell the coffee after the church service.
Phone: 520 203 8497
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Café Justo’s mission is to deliver the highest quality, organic, environmentally conscious, fresh roasted coffee to customers at a price that is fair and just. They work to create a bond between the members of the coffee growing community in Salvador Urbina and their customers throughout the world.
Story:
Café Justo began with a discussion between the PCUSA Border Ministry, Frontera de Cristo, and the small coffee growers of Salvador Urbina, to determine how best to provide a living wage to the coffee growers. This resulted in the organization of those growers into cooperatives who would grow, harvest, roast, and market their own coffee thus shifting the profits from large, international companies to the members of the cooperative. This effort started with just one cooperative. Currently there are five co-ops supporting 115 families. Two are in Chiapas, one in Veracruz and one in Nayarit.
The financial benefits of Café Justo are significant when compared to Fair Trade coffee or local purchases. It is also easy to see the impact this business has on migration. The people involved in producing the coffee are now building concrete homes with access to electricity and water. They are no longer trying to immigrate into the U.S. to find jobs. The value of this business to other residents of Salvador Urbina is also clear as the profits earned by the farmers are used to purchase goods and services provided by others in the community. Your coffee purchase is having a direct and dramatic effect on this community and others. The cooperative members and community are putting aside their differences to provide an excellent, chemical free, environmentally friendly product and business.
How Can You Help?
1. Purchase your coffee after church during fellowship on the second and fourth Sundays each month. You can purchase caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee in a medium or bold roast as beans or ground coffee. 100% of the money from our sales goes to the coffee cooperatives.
2. Contact Tommy and Lee Ann Calhoun to volunteer to sell the coffee after the church service.
Phone: 520 203 8497
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
