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Fair Trade Coffee                  

As a community we are looking at using Fair Trade Coffee. Fair Trade Coffee creates a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest and fair trade relationships and cooperative principles. This approach supports farmers and their communities as they build lives based on dignity and hope. This approach also encourages ecologically sustainable farming practices. Sustainable farming helps build a long-term economic base for farmers while protecting their communities, the environment and consumers from dangerous chemicals. 

By serving fairly traded coffee in our dining room, we can share fellowship with our neighbors in coffee-growing countries, making a difference in their lives while enjoying a delicious cup of coffee.

We have researched several sources of coffee.  We have ordered from three sources and will have a coffee tasting to decide whom to order from on a long-term basis.  Why not sample some of these and let us know which is your favorite?

These are our three sources:

Monastery of Our Lady of the Andes
Br. ALfredo Bencomo
FAX 770-929-1960
monasterycoffee@yahoo.com
http://www.mepkinabbey.org/abbeystore/food/food.htm
 
The Catholic Relief Services Coffee Project
www.catholicrelief.org/fairtrade/coffee/index.cfm

Equal Exchange, Interfaith Program
125 Revere Street
Canton, MA  02021
FAX  781-830-0282
interfaith@equalexchange.com
http://store.yahoo.com/equalexchange/

   
New Harvest Coffee Roasters
310 Bourne Avenue
East Providence, RI  02916
FAX 401-438-9599/Toll-Free  866-438-1999
newharvestcoffee@conversent.net

www.newharvestcoffee.com/site/ordercoffee.html
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