GoFundMe Appeal

On Monday, April 17th, we reached out with a Get Response e-mail blast to about 900 people asking them to learn about us and, if possible, help our growers improve their facilities.
 
We provided this link to our GoFundMe page:
 
Help the Growers Improve Your Morning Coffee, organized by S Ron Covey
 
We are raising money to help our growers of Family Coffee improve their coffee bean drying facilities. With our supporters’ help, the growers can make two improvements:

• Add concrete flooring to their solar dryers. The concrete flooring will help reduce moisture in the solar dryers and thus improve the quality of our coffee.
• Replace the plastic windows in the greenhouse-like drying structures. These windows are weakening and have been nearly destroyed by the local weather.

Several years ago, we raised the money needed to erect solar dryers. At the time, this was a recent innovation in coffee production. Before the advent of solar dryers, the normal way to dry coffee cherries (beans) was to spread them out on the ground or a concrete surface to dry in the sun. When the rain came, workers used wood 2x4s to scoop up the coffee and store it until it could again be laid out to dry. Combining the solar drying structures and concrete flooring improves drying efficiency in two ways.
Caminando por la Paz Paz (visit www.fathertomscaminando.org) has been selling excellent Honduran coffee through Father Tom’s Family Coffee for more than five years. The purpose of our coffee project has been to provide funding for Caminando's educational projects. Working with Honduran coffee growers to produce the best possible coffee, we assist them in their efforts to improve its quality at every step in the process.
We are grateful for the help you have offered in the past and hope you can help again as we continue to improve our coffee production process.

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