The life of a Coffee Worker [Photo Series]
I want to share with you, the work I am involved in with indigenous coffee workers in Latin America. If you enjoy coffee and seeing a different perspective of poverty, you will enjoy this.
Coffee is a global beverage consumed in almost every country. You many not realize this, but that cup of heaven you enjoy is harvested by some of the poorest individuals in the world.
The beans are beginning to ripen as we enter the rainy season. During the harvest time, thousands of workers will migrate with their entire families to the various farms to harvest the beans.
One cup of coffee holds so much more than just a drink. As a morning drink, that cup of joe represents waking up to the world. It brightens up the day and gives that prepared for the day feeling that so many of us enjoy. One cup of coffee is the labor of so many hands and processes. Specially in our modern world, the hands whom cultivate the coffee, almost never meet the hands that enjoy this drink. While you and I may be having a cup in Downtown Seattle on a Saturday morning for $ 4 per cup (10 grams of ground beans), an unacknowledged coffee harvester is picking the same beans around the world for $ .04 Cents for one pound of beans collected. It is a known fact that economic injustice exists for agricultural workers around the world, but what many do not realize is how large this gap really is. Agricultural workers have much different problems than us. They work in unimaginable conditions to meet their much more primal necessities such food, clothing and in this story: shelter.
This a 20X16 Foot shared home where over 30 people will live in for 3 to 6 months while they harvest the coffee beans. The conditions they endure are deplorable and the conditions at their homes is not much better. More details to come.
Shared kitchen where the women will cook hundreds of meals per day as the men work in the fields. This is a traditional wood burning stove top. NO chimney or much more.
In this account of its exploratory mission, DwellingsAG brings to light the facts that Coffee workers around the world face every day. Coffee workers are paid the least amount in the entire production chain, they also endure unthinkable living conditions in the field and that deep poverty is also reflected their lives at home when they return from the fields.
This is going to be a multiple post series where I will be talking about the everyday life that a coffee worker endures so that you and I drink a blissful cup of Joe. Many more photos and worker witness posts to come in the following days.
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In Costa Rica it has been called the golden bean, it has driven the economy and it pretty much make the country succeed. Now it's slowly being overcome by residential projects.
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The Organic Coffee made in Costa Rica is of a high standard-85 to 95 Points. The Key word is Organic. If you can supply Organic, you can negotiate the price directly with the buyers.
That's true as we could never get as much volume as Colombia or Brazil
Howdy sir deepwaters! Well, I knew it was bad but I didn't know it was THAT bad! Dang, that sucks. What can be done, anything?
We build homes and give them to needed families in this region. This helps in many ways in which I will be writing about in the coming days.
Something a regular folk like us could do is buy fair trade and organic coffee. It is farmed differently and has a strong financial impact in the community.
That is such a wonderful thing to do sir deepwaters! I'm anxious to read about that. I knew about free trade coffee but didn't know they had free trade coffee also. Now I just need to find who sells it.
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