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Just Coffee 2007 Travel
Hello all, Here in Madison, Just Coffee has been working with a student organization at the University of Wisconsin to develop a service-learning project that we have called the Fair Trade University Project to actively engage students in issues related to fair trade. We are launching the first hands-on experience of the project this May, hoping to bring a group of students to Guatemala to learn about fair trade. We will be visiting Santa Anita, another coffee coop in the community of Montellano (2 hrs from Chimaltenango), as well as meeting with Cafe Conciencia and Manos Campesinos. Please distribute this announcement to anyone that you think might be interested. We are giving preference to college students, but will consider other participants if there is space. Below is the announcement. Attached is more info: tentative itinerary and application. (deadline for application has been extended). Thanks!
Fair Trade University!
Spend Ten Days in Guatemala!
May 24-June 3, 2007
Get the full scoop by reading the following file
The Fair Trade
University Project (FTU) is an exciting new
service-learning
project designed to engage college students in a hands-on
experience of the fair trade movement and all of the economic,
social, cultural, and environmental justice issues that fair trade
encompasses. As a Fair Trade University, we will take learning into the field,
to share experiences directly with indigenous coffee farmers, fair
trade coffee roasters, and social and environmental activists from the
global north and global south. We will
apply the
principles of fair trade to our learning - democratic decision making,
working with small producers and cooperatives, and building
long-term relationships around social justice values, as we
discuss and
debate how to keep the fair trade movement moving forward.
Join us as we initiate this exciting new service-learning project!
- *Visit and work
with two rural, coffee-growing cooperatives in
Guatemala: One with a history in the fair trade movement and another
in the process of looking for alternative markets. Learn about
democracy and alternative production models - *Discuss Fair Trade. Should it be market-based or movement-based?
- *Learn about
the history of Guatemala's internal
conflict, the
histories of the communities, and how they have rebuilt their lives
after war. - *Study CAFTA and its effects on Guatemala
- *Learn about women's organizing to resist CAFTA
- *Learn about
organic production of coffee, what it means, & its
importance to these communities struggling to do sustainable development - *Work in the coffee fields, as the trees are flowering, and hike the land.
Cost: $600 (possibly lower depending on number of students)
Deadline to apply is has been extended to April 26th with a $100 deposit to ensure consideration
