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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
At The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®, not only is it a paramount concern that we provide our customers with the highest-quality products, but it's equally important that these products can be traced to farms worldwide that pay fair wages and treat workers respectfully.
To further support these valued partnerships we raise money through the sale of certain products which is then donated to vital programs such as:
EDUCATION FOR COFFEE GROWING FAMILIES (COLOMBIA)
This nonprofit arm of the famed coffee growing company, Empresas de Narino, builds and improves schools for the children of coffee-growing families in the Narino region of Colombia. To help support this meaningful effort, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® donates a portion of the sales for every one-pound bag of Colombian coffee (Colombia Supremo, Colombia Dark, and Decaf Colombia Supremo) sold in our domestic company-owned stores.
BOGAWANTALAWA COMMUNITY CENTER (SRI LANKA)
We purchase all of our Ceylon teas from the Bogawantalawa tea estate in Sri Lanka. In 2003, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® funded construction of the estate's first community center and education facility. We are raising funds to build a toddler daycare center for the estate workers' children, as well as a library. Specifically, we are donating a portion of the sales of all brewed cups and tea tins including Estate Ceylon, Vanilla Ceylon, Apricot Ceylon, English Breakfast,
and any limited edition Ceylon teas.
AID LANKA KIDS (SRI LANKA)
In response to the devastating 2004 tsunami in Asia, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® helped support the Aid Lanka Kids Foundation. Since early 2005, in addition to an initial donation, we proudly contribute a portion of the sales of every Ceylon tin and Ceylon brewed tea sold. Foundation funds have been directed primarily to provide care and education to orphaned girls at the Jeevanie School For Girls.
KIMSSA SCHOOL SELF-HELP PROJECT (ETHIOPIA)
In 2003, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® began a philanthropic relationship with the Kidane Mhret Students' Self-Help Association (KIMSSA), an Ethiopian nonprofit organization based in Addis, the region from which we import our Ethiopian coffees. For each pound of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe green coffee purchased,
we are helping to provide library services, tutoring, school supplies, and educational facilities.
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES (PAPUA NEW GUINEA)
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® buys some 350,000 pounds of green coffee from plantations throughout Papua New Guinea. Educational facilities in many of these areas are sorely lacking. To help address this urgent issue, we are donating a portion of each pound of green coffee purchased by The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®.
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