Child Aid - Building Brighter Futures

I didn’t know it either, but it’s true. It’s National Coffee Day!

Guatemala is one of the world’s top producers of coffee, and many of the children involved in our literacy program work seasonally in the coffee industry. Xojola and Pasaq are just two of several coffee communities that participate in Reading for Life, our flagship literacy program in Guatemala. Help support our work in these villages by donating here.

A family drying green coffee beans in the village of Pasaq, a Child Aid partner community

This is also a perfect time to thank the coffee companies that support our work.

- Ethical Bean, in Vancouver BC, is a major supporter of our scholarship program in the town of El Tejar, helping put over 100 impoverished children through grade school and junior high. 
- Jim’s Organic Coffee has partnered with us for years, first to help bring a new library and classrooms to the village of Tzanchaj and now to support Reading for Life in that community.
- Portland Roasting, a Child Aid hometown partner and longtime local coffee company, is helping us bring Reading for Life to four coffee communities in the Guatemalan highlands.

Our warmest thanks to each of these companies for making our literacy work possible.

We are very proud to announce that Portland Roasting is supporting Child Aid’s literacy work in Guatemala this season! Every time Portland Roasting sells a bag of its special Guatemalan Holiday Blend, it will donate $1 to Child Aid!

This means that every time you buy a bag of Guatemalan Holiday Blend coffee, you support Child Aid. The money raised will help fund Child Aid’s Reading for Life program in the coffee producing communities of Pasaq, Xojolá, Palá and Chicacao. Since you’ll be getting a pound of the city’s best coffee in the process, everyone wins!

So where do you get it? Buy it online here, or pick up a bag at one of the following Portland-area stores:

Whole Foods
Lamb’s Garden Home
Zupans
Sheridan’s Fruit Company
Lillian’s Natural Marketplace
Lamb’s at Stroheckers
Made in Oregon

Our hugest thanks to everyone at Portland Roasting!