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Just Haiti Inc.
Biography
Just Haiti works to alleviate poverty, hunger, violence, illiteracy and
disease in Haiti, while reducing Haitians’ dependence on charity.
Our current project uses a fair-trade-plus business model to develop a
coffee-export business owned by an association of subsistence farmers in
Baradères, Haiti. Their coffee is Kafe Lespwa, which in Haitian Creole means
“coffee of hope.” Kafe Lespwa, a delicious, shade-grown, organic coffee, can
provide the kind of economically and environmentally sustainable,
farmer-owned business venture that rural Haiti desperately needs.
Typical fair-trade coffee growers only receive earnings for their fresh
harvest; about 90 percent of the profit in the coffee business goes to
middlemen. But our growers’ association, the Kafe Devlopman Baradé, receives
100 percent of the profits.
Just Haiti sponsors training to help the growers improve quality,
productivity and business methods. We also created a revolving loan fund.
This enables the growers’ association to buy needed equipment and expertise.
Using funds from a 0-percent-interest, 5-year loan, the growers built and
now use two new processing sites. At these sites, growers process their
fresh harvest of coffee cherries into dry coffee beans. The beans are
exported to the US. Just Haiti arranges for roasting, packaging and sales.
Roast Kafe Lespwa is sold locally in the Washington, DC, and Chicago areas
as well as online at the Just Haiti website,
http://www.justhaiti.org/buycoffee.htm. Thirty percent of purchases are tax
deductible.
The farmers are repaying the loan, using a small portion of their profits,
so Just Haiti can re-invest funds in similar projects in Haiti. In 2010, the
growers used part of their coffee earnings to provide medical, food, tuition
and other assistance to refugees from the January 12 earthquake who arrived
in their community.