Cafe Femenino

Overview

The story of Café Femenino began in 2004 when women farmers from northern Peru began talking with their cooperative leaders about their desire to separate their coffee from the men’s. These female members of CECANOR felt they put more care into their production, creating a superior product and wanted to know if there might be a market for women’s coffee. CECANOR, having already established a partnership with OPTCO over the previous 10 years, collaborated with us to see how we might organize a women’s only coffee for the international marketplace. Together we developed a full social program with the goal to empower female farmers using the production and sale of their own product as the vehicle to create social change.  Today the Café Femenino Program continues to have a huge impact in the daily lives of women around the world and creates greater gender equality in families, cooperatives, and communities. To find our more information about this extraordinary program, click here.

Cafe Femenino Cycle

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Global Programs

  • Peru
  • Colombia
  • Dominican Republic
  • Mexico
  • Guatemala
  • Nicaragua
  • Bolivia
  • Rwanda

Cafe Femenino Foundation

The Café Femenino Foundation provides ongoing support each year to fund grants requested by the Café Femenino Women’s groups. Foundation volunteers work year round to promote the program, its benefits, and raise funds that go directly to development projects that improve communities and families. The Café Femenino Foundation is a non-profit organization separately managed and operated from Organic Products Trading Company. To find out more, please visit their website at www.CoffeeCan.org.