The newest location of 3-19 Coffee, which opened last week in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. Photo by Grace McConnell, courtesy of 3-19.
Food security and access to household necessities have been two of the most pressing and immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among smallholder farmers and their communities all over the world.
Doing its part to assist coffee-farming communities in its own supply stream that have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic, the growing Cleveland- and Oakland-based roasting and retail company 3-19 Coffee has launched The Rural Guatemala Assistance Project.
The fundraising and delivery effort involves subsistence packages for members of Asproguate Cooperative, which represents more than 1,900 coffee-growing families in the Guatemalan coffee-growing regions of Acatenango, San Martin Jilotepeque, Coban and Atitlan.
Asproguate Cooperative Manager Evelyn Rodas said the region of Guatemala is currently classified as a…
