To help coffee-farming families
improve the quality of their lives.

MISSION

To this end, our staff works with local organizations in Latin America to create education, health care, micro-credit, and community-based programs for coffee farmers and their families. These efforts allow coffee farmers to reduce their dependence on the volatile coffee market and to confront the most pressing community needs.

PROGRAMMS

Coffee Kids helps communities develop their own programs creating self-sufficiency and ownership that afford coffee-farming families a higher quality of life while still working in coffee. Our projects are classified by four categories, including: Microcredit, Education, Health Care, and Community-Based Projects.

HOW TO HELP

It’s easy, safe, and fast to donate to Coffee Kids. We provide several options for your convenience.

You can either make a one-time donation, or a long-term commitment to helping coffee-farming families by signing up to make a monthly donation. You can also make a gift in honor of someone.

For more information contact Coffee Republic
or go to official "Coffee Kids'" site: www.coffeekids.org

HISTORY

Bill Fishbein, a coffee roaster from Providence, R.I., USA, founded Coffee Kids in 1988. Fishbein has been working in the specialty coffee industry since 1977 when it was just beginning to make an impact in the United States.

While traveling to Guatemala in 1988, he witnessed the poverty faced by those producing coffee throughout the world. Over 125 million people around the world are completely dependent on the annual coffee harvest as their only source of income.

Fishbein was shocked by the poverty, but overwhelmed by the generosity and spirit of the people forming the base of the coffee industry.

Upon his return home, Fishbein began canvassing fellow coffee roasters and was overwhelmed by the support. Numerous roasters were confronting the same realities at the roots of the industry and looking for an outlet to support positive change.

Since then, Coffee Kids has raised and distributed over $4 million in funds to help coffee-farming families in their efforts to improve the quality of their lives.