| Just Coffee has evolved out of a partnership
between activists in Madison, WI and coffee growers in Chiapas,
Mexico. In 1999 Community Action on Latin America (CALA) began
a sistering project with the Autonomous Municipality of Santa
Catarina, Chiapas. With few resources, we began to explore ways
that we could help these autonomous Mayan indigenous communities
to improve their basic living conditions in an area full of intense
poverty and torn with civil strife. One of the ways the people
of Santa Catarina thought we could help was to assist them in
selling their excellent coffee in fair markets here in the U.S. |
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