
"Coffee with a Mission"
directfund.biz is a for profit venture with an eye towards charity. We feature the Tanzanian gourmet coffee produced by Sweet Unity Farms Coffee. Sweet Unity Farms Coffee is a cooperative of over 400 small-scale coffee farmers founded by David Robinson, son of baseball great Jackie Robinson. David has made his home in Tanzania for the past two decades and leads a social mission of growing coffee from seed to cup. The coffee cooperative is located in the southern highlands of Tanzania, East Africa, in the region called Mbeya. As coffee is Tanzania's largest foreign exchange earner, Sweet Unity Farms Coffee is an effort to change a bleak reality and create a voice, window, and means of joining the world community. David, a rural farmer himself, provides the farmers as much as 25% more than "fair market" value for their crops. In what he likes to call "fair market PLUS," the farmers also receive a year end bonus of 25 cents per pound sold in the United States.
In an extension of David's mission to assist the Tanzanian farmers, a portion of the profits from your purchase, as much as $2.00 per bag in retail sales, will go to The DirectFund Foundation. The DirectFund Foundation sends 100% of the funds received to Bugando Hospital and Bugando University College of Health Sciences located on the shores of Lake Victoria in Mwanza, Tanzania. Bugando Hospital is an 800 bed hospital serving 9 million people. It usually has only ten to fifteen fully trained doctors on hand and limited access to medicines and surgical supplies. Bugando University College of Health Sciences is a fully accredited medical school that started in 2002 within the hospital and has three years of students in a five year program creating doctors for Africa. To date, funds sent by The DirectFund Foundation have been used to purchase specialized pediatric cancer medicines, anesthetics, beddings/linens, food for the patients and staff. Funds have also been used to help build the medical school that operates within the hospital as well as training future doctors for Africa
directfund.biz will make this coffee available in one pound packages, at a discounted, wholesale pricing to restaurants, clubs and corporations for coffee service. Just as important, we will wholesale at discount pricing to nonprofit organizations like PTA's, church and civic groups that may re-sell the product at fair market value to raise funds for their own purposes. For special pricing, packaging and labeling arrangements, please call Chris at (631) 404-8217
More about the coffee: Coffee excellence means hand picking each bean at its peak of ripeness and utilizing only the top two grades of beans out of seven grades generated from each harvest. By blending full-bodied coffees from the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro with the bright, winey coffees of the Southern Highlands, our 100% Tanzanian coffee is what the New York Times calls the "Cabernet of Coffee."
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