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WHAT’S NEW
This fall, Port Angeles’s Coffee and Tea Bar, Renaissance, will join with coffee-drinkers around Clallam County to raise funds for First Step Family Support Center, simply by doing what we (love to) do everyday, drink coffee!
First Step Family Support Center has been serving Clallam County families for more than thirty-five years. This year they have embarked on their most ambitious project, the addition of a new building to house their expanding programming and capacity.
Here’s the good news for coffee-drinkers who wish to support First Step, the families they serve, and some remarkable women growing coffee in the Peruvian Andes: For every bulk pound of Café Femenino purchased, Renaissance will donate $3.00 to the First Step Family Support Center’s Capital Campaign; for every 12 oz. bag of Café Femenino sold, $2.00 will be donated.
Renaissance’s goal is to raise $10,000 for First Step Family Support Center’s new building and programming; enough to earn the Naming Rights of their new Training and Conference Room. It’s Renaissance’s hope to offer a name that speaks of the power of women’s work to support and strengthen family.
About those special coffee-growers in Peru: Café Femenino is a collective of women coffee growers in the Peruvian Andes who have come together to grow and process the highest quality coffee beans in service to their families and their communities, as well as their own economic independence. They are committed to organic growing practices and to maintaining critical bird habitat in their coffee farms. Café Femenino growers produce a very high quality coffee bean and ask a high premium for their beans. Roasters who purchase their beans agree to pay this premium regardless of the vagaries of the world coffee market, assuring a consistent source of income for Café Femenino families, lifting its members, their children, and their communities out of poverty.
Café Femenino growers encourage the cafés around the world that sell Femenino coffee to use their beans to raise money for women who struggle for economic independence in their own communities. Renaissance is a woman-owned business committed to serving the highest quality organic coffees and teas, grown and produced using fair trade models of commerce. Since its inception Renaissance and its employees have worked to establish the business as a modest, but critical participant in the local community and economic development.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Please, drink more coffee! If you’re not already drinking this delicious coffee, consider switching to Café Femenino. You’ll find Femenino to have a moderate body, low acidity, complex flavor, with earthy undertones, and a roast that is moderately dark. (Coffee brewed from the Arabica beans grown by Café Femenino growers has approximately 50% of the caffeine as coffee brewed by the more common Robusta bean characteristic of “grocery store brands” such as Yuban, Folgers, and store name brands.) Café Femenino is reasonably-priced. At $12.95 a pound and $9.95 for the 12 oz bag, Café Femenino is less expensive than the organic coffees you buy in supermarket chains like Safeway.
Café Femenino can be purchased (whole bean or ground to your specifications) at Renaissance, 401 E Front Street. Renaissance is open Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 7:00 pm and on Saturday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Tell your friends, your churches, your clubs, your family members! Simply by drinking Café Femenino you can help empower women and their families world-round, and right here at home!
Just think: most two-coffee drinker households drink a pound of coffee a week. At $3.00 per week, that’s more than $150.00 annually given directly to First Step Family Support Center, the services and resources for young families we’ve come to trust and count on since 1971.
Why drink organic coffee? Simply put, drinking organic coffee completely eliminates a daily source of pesticide and herbicide residue consumption. Most of us must make decisions about when we will buy organic and when we will not make the extra expenditure to buy organic, often choosing organic for the foods we eat most frequently and consistently. Since most Americans drink coffee daily, switching to organic coffee limits our intake of these carcinogenic substances, everyday.
Buying organic coffee makes a significant impact on the men and women who grow our coffee. Cancer rates, especially ovarian cancer rates, are skyrocketing in coffee-growing regions using chemically-based pesticides and herbicides. Drinking organic coffee eliminates this health risk from coffee growers and the entire communities in which they are located.
For more information, please call Lynn Keenan at Renaissance 565-1199
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