We’re studying so we can be better
Posted by Winston on 15 May 2009 at 10:50 am | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
No not us. School kids in Costa Rica . It’s the phrase painted on the wall outside of the El Socorro School. It’s a very small school in Alajuela Province , Costa Rica (1 teacher, 1 room, 15 kids, 7 grades. They received $300 last year to buy books courtesy of Cup for Education. CFE, as we call Cup for Education, is a small non-profit that raises money for school supplies, rebuilds damaged schools buildings and is working on funding an entire school in Nicaragua. Not only do we buy coffee from this region that goes into our Breakfast Blend, my cubicle mate here in Waterbury, Deb Crowther, who buys 70% of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ coffee, is the Vice President of CFE.
It’s a very low-tech operation. If someone is visiting us from source, Deb will frequently load them up with a cheap duffle bag of pens, pencils, and note pads to bring to another small school. It’s kind of a low tech school too apparently – mothers take turns on weekends cleaning the school and the parents do all the gardening and maintenance.
As a company we donate a modest amount to CFE, some employees donate, and the organization has plenty of other donors. YOU can donate too.