Coffee is the SECOND-MOST traded commodity in the WORLD economy, after oil.
One coffee tree yields slightly less than 1 pound of coffee per year.
For every pound of gourmet coffee sold, small-coffee farmers receive between 12¢ and 25¢.
In Guatemala, 70 CHILDREN out of every 1,000 DIE before age 5; 51 of those children will NOT LIVE to reach their first birthdays.
There is only ONE doctor for every 85,000 people in the Western Highlands of Guatemala.
"As you sip your morning coffee or enjoy that afternoon espresso, do you ever think about where coffee comes from?Around the world, literally millions of people dedicate their lives to growing coffee.
Unfortunately, the blessings of coffee don't always filter down to the people who grow it.
Coffee farmers earn as little as a PENNY-a-POUND for their harvest, and even during the years when crops do well and prices are high, the CHILDREN of coffee growers GO WITHOUT much that we take for granted.