ROAST:GROUNDS FOR HEALTH / PERU FTO WOMEN PRODUCERS - LIMA COFFEE : MEDIUM

ROAST is dedicated to featuring women-led coffees and to support Grounds For Health, a non-profit focusing on providing cervical cancer pre screening to women in coffee producing countries. For each bag of ROAST sold, $5 will be donated to Grounds for Health.

Currently featured with ROAST is Peru Fair Trade Organic Women Producers - Lima Coffee This is a fantastic offering that has notes of malt, toffee and chocolate flavors with sweetness in the cup. 

The Women Coffee project with Lima Coffees puts a price premium paid directly to the contributing women farmers for each lot. Lima Coffees brings together 110 coffee-growing families led by women, heads of their groups. relatives and representatives of their own farms.

This program was born with the purpose of motivating coffee growers, and future generations of women, to empower themselves and take the initiative to improve their quality of life, to excel and make a sustainable life based on agriculture, reaching their full potential in the areas in which they wish to develop, having as a starting point the production of sustainable coffee.

This organization seeks to provide the necessary tools to make this possible.

There’s a workgroup made up of 2 representatives of the group of associated women of Lima Coffee

Representante – Isabel Paz Correa – Zona: Chirinos

Secretario – Olga Calle Chumacero – Zona: Ihuamaca

100% of the premiums go toward the women of the two groups, with 70% earmarked to help organize the group, and the other 30 percent to develop a program for empowerment of women at work, a program for economic development, savings and investment, a program of leadership development and leadership training, and a program for comprehensive well-being and gender equality.