Guest Post: Fair Trade In Rwanda By TransFair USA

Posted by Kristen on 06 May 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee & K-Cups, Fair Trade

Katie Barrow, PR Manager at TransFair USA (the third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States), recently traveled to Rwanda to meet the Fair Trade coffee farmers who produced the beans for our Fair Trade Spring Revival Blend™. There she witnessed firsthand the hope and pride that Fair Trade has brought to the people of this tiny country, especially the women. Here’s her story:

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Spring Revival™ Blend: A story of Rwandan survival and revival

Posted by Laura on 22 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee & K-Cups, Fair Trade

Green Mountain Coffee is working with the Clinton Global Initiative, TransFair USA, the Cordes Foundation, andl farmers of Rwanda to bring Fair Trade Certified Spring Revival Blend coffee.

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Jean-Paul Samputu Visits Green Mountain Coffee

Posted by Kristen on 29 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Life In Vermont

Jean-Paul Samputu, African singer, songwriter, and musician, joined us for a night of Rwandan Storytelling, Song, & Dance as a part of Green Mountain Coffee’s Visitor Center Event series.

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Recovering Rwanda with Fair Trade

Posted by Heather on 10 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Fair Trade

Green Mountain Coffee’s Lindsey Bolger speaks of her time teaching Rwandans the art of cupping coffee.

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15 Years later….Remembering the people who were mine

Posted by Rick on 23 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility

A couple weeks ago I received an email (below) from a young woman named Alice Musabende who I met in early 2006 when I traveled to Rwanda with two of my coworkers at Green Mountain Coffee: Lindsey Bolger and Laura Peterson.  We spent a long day visiting coffee farmers and co-ops, and later in the [...]

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