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With much excitement I would like to announce the start of something great happening on the ground in Yemen.
Yemen has had a pretty rough go of it since 2015, the whole country has been turned upside down yet we have managed to land their amazing coffee in Australia (most years) even though sometimes it looked like a ridiculous risk to do so.
Without making this thread too political the punchline is that the farmers and their families work in some of the roughest, dangerous and most rugged landscapes on earth and the only GDP they create is green coffee bean sales. Obviously coffee needs water but it doesn't always rain on schedule so farmers need dams to buffer the wet/dry and irrigate when the trees really need it.
With great assistance from "our man on the ground" Ahmed who has donated his time to coordinate and transport, he has put together a list of 44 coffee farming family's who have a desperate need for cement to rebuild and seal their dams. From small plot farmers to the village dam (pic below) and they will need between 40 and 100 bags of cement each to complete the work that's been idle since 2015.
Thanks to all you CoffeeSnobs everywhere, FairCrack has just purchased enough cement to help every one of the farming families work towards water security in the future which will improve their crop, help their income and their health too.
Well done Snobs!
Real projects making a real difference, as a community we prove again that it can be done.
Yemen has had a pretty rough go of it since 2015, the whole country has been turned upside down yet we have managed to land their amazing coffee in Australia (most years) even though sometimes it looked like a ridiculous risk to do so.
Without making this thread too political the punchline is that the farmers and their families work in some of the roughest, dangerous and most rugged landscapes on earth and the only GDP they create is green coffee bean sales. Obviously coffee needs water but it doesn't always rain on schedule so farmers need dams to buffer the wet/dry and irrigate when the trees really need it.
With great assistance from "our man on the ground" Ahmed who has donated his time to coordinate and transport, he has put together a list of 44 coffee farming family's who have a desperate need for cement to rebuild and seal their dams. From small plot farmers to the village dam (pic below) and they will need between 40 and 100 bags of cement each to complete the work that's been idle since 2015.
Thanks to all you CoffeeSnobs everywhere, FairCrack has just purchased enough cement to help every one of the farming families work towards water security in the future which will improve their crop, help their income and their health too.
Well done Snobs!
Real projects making a real difference, as a community we prove again that it can be done.
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