For more information contact
Miriam
S. Brighton
Coffee
Culture
(657)
203-4244
mbrighton@coffeeculture.org
For
release after 10 a.m.
Tuesday,
April 29
COFFEE
EXHIBITION TO RAISE MONEY AND AWARENESS
Coffee
Culture will host an interactive
coffee exhibition May 4 at 8 a.m. at the Lancaster Convention Center to raise money for the
organization’s newest project.
The
educational exhibition will
detail the production of coffee from seed to drip while teaching the public
about the impoverished coffee towns where the coffee process begins. Event
goers will enjoy an unending flow of indigenous tastes from coffee
sampling centers spread throughout the exhibition.
Coffee Culture will hold the event to raise
money for their newest
project in the Dominican Republic. The nonprofit organization will open a
coffee shop in Mill Valley next spring to begin restoring the economy of the
impoverished coffee town.
“The
towns that give us our best coffee beans here in the states are living in
unbearable poverty down in South and Central America,” said Coffee Culture’s
co-president Avery Fey. “The towns never see a drip of the coffee they cultivate.
We believe economic revival will come by putting the coffee back into the
culture.”
The
Sunday event will have several displays depicting life in an impoverished coffee
town. One display will have event goers experience a day in the life of an
impoverished coffee farmer.
The
cost of the event is $10. Coffee Culture products will be available for sale at
the event. Products satisfy a wide palate of coffee tastes and preferences.
Apparel
from the Coffee Culture clothing line will also be available.
From
this single event, Coffee Culture hopes to raise over $10,000 for their new
coffee shop in the Dominican Republic.
Besides
fundraising, Coffee Culture will hold the event to raise awareness.
“We
want people to know what is happening around the globe and understand that they
can help. This event is very much about educating and spreading awareness,” said
Fey. 293 words.
Coffee
Culture was founded in 2004 by four of the world’s leading entrepreneurs who
saw poverty as the world’s biggest issue. Coffee Culture chose to enter
impoverished coffee towns to revive economies through the stimulation of
business. In a coffee town, this is done by building local coffee shops that
sell the town’s coffee. These shops are eventually given to town employees who receive
training to run the business. Coffee Culture desires to see change in the third
world one coffee town at a time.
