New developments at Just Haiti
July 18, 2011

Dear Just Haiti Friends, Customers, and Supporters,

Please join us in celebrating some exciting new developments at Just Haiti.

Starting today, Baltimore Coffee and Tea (www.baltcoffee.com), with stores in Timonium, Frederick, and Annapolis, will be our new roaster in Maryland. In addition to roasting Kafe Lespwa, Baltimore Coffee & Tea will be buying coffee produced by the growers in Baradères, Haiti, and selling it in their stores, and processing all our internet orders.

Here's how internet orders will work from now on: You will place your order for Kafe Lespwa in the usual way. We will collect the orders on a weekly basis and deliver them to Baltimore Coffee & Tea. They will roast coffee to fill the orders and send them out within a day or two of roasting. Although you may have to wait a few days longer to receive your order, the coffee you receive will always be fresh, and we think you will notice a great and immediate improvement in the quality.

Starting with the next harvest in October, Baltimore Coffee & Tea will be buying bulk green coffee beans from us and roasting and selling coffee from the Baradères growers' association under their own label. They will offer it as a French roast in bean, drip grind, and espresso. They did a formal tasting of the coffee and loved the espresso! This will increase the amount of coffee we sell, enabling us to increase the number of coffee growers we can work with in Haiti.

We also want to let you know about another new arrangement, with A New Faith Community in Baltimore. ANFC sponsors a community center, called Clay Pots, on West Pratt Street, in a run-down and often forgotten neighborhood in Baltimore. The cornerstone of Clay Pots programming is a free coffee house open three days a week. The coffee house is an alcohol-free environment where people from the community can come together, hang out, play cards, check their email—and of course drink coffee. Starting this month Just Haiti will be providing coffee, and in exchange, Clay Pots will provide us with storage, workspace, and a place to hold meetings and events. They will also sell Kafe Lespwa at some of their evening events.

We really like the mutual collaboration and shared mission of this arrangement. Just Haiti's work not only provides a livelihood for the coffee growers of Baradères, Haiti; it is also helping to build community in the inner-city of Baltimore.

Thanks for your continuing support for our work. As you know, the most important way that you can help is to keep buying the coffee, at http://justhaiti.org/buycoffee.htm, and to tell your friends about us.

—The Just Haiti Team

Just Haiti works to alleviate poverty, hunger, violence, illiteracy and disease in Haiti by fostering small-business development, education programs, employment opportunity, infrastructure improvement and environmental quality. Just Haiti is a Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization.

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