Buena Beans brings the coffee from La Violeta, Costa Rica to the American market and uses the profits to improve the local school. It is run by Kate Schneider, a former volunteer teacher in the town.

Kate spent a year living and working in La Violeta. She was impressed by the quality of the coffee and amazed by the history of the town. Coffee had pulled the community out of dire poverty over three generations. Thing is, there are no opportunities outside of small-scale farming for the generation of children growing up now and future generations.

With a few thousand dollars, the community could afford to build a secure space to house computers that it received as a donation. With the infrastructure already in place for an internet connection, the entire community could access the Internet through a free connection provided by the government. All they need is four walls and a roof.

Every purchase you make from Buena Beans is a direct action in support of global educational initiatives, sustainable development, and great coffee. They need to sell a total of 4500 lbs of coffee to meet this need. They have all ready sold a lot of that.  If everyone who reads this bought just one pound that goal would be met.

I am not getting paid for this. I just wanted to let you know that this is going on and you can be a part of it. I reviewed Buena Beans Cafe  la Violeta earlier in the year.

image: sxc

image: Buena Beans

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What does this have to do with tea?

Nothing.

Coffee?

Nope.

I know alot of you who read Kettle and Cup are homeschoolers.  Fellow homeschoolers.  With the jumpers and mini vans to prove it, right? So as  long as you can give me the secret handshake I will share this cool link with you.

You don’t know the handshake?

Sigh.

I got an email this morning offering homeschoolers the download of a free e-book about world geography. It looks pretty decent. I haven’t read all the way through it yet but I think it is something we are going to be able to use.

Globalmania 

Now, the site says to right click to download but I had to left click to download. It could be me or the site could just be whack.

You know how those homeschoolers are.

And hey…Uh…go and grab yourself a cup of tea before you start downloading.

Nice tie in wasn’t it?

Oh! And if you learn World Geography you will know where the coffee in the picture comes from.

What a great save.

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