News from Coffee Culture

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Miriam S. Brighton

Coffee Culture

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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.