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To make the world a better place
by helping the impoverished, and forgotten children.
The mission team is currently composed of Rick Sample, David and
Jennifer Jones, Carol and Boake Moore, and Tom Loach. We not only have
a great love for missions but a special fondness for children. It is
all our prayers that we are able to help thousands and thousands of
children through the sale of Mission Grounds Coffee.
We knew many people would buy the coffee at least once to help
children. Our goal was to have such a great coffee that people would
buy it the second and third time because its quality and flavor. If we
can accomplish that, think how rewarding would it be to know that your
coffee habit is helping thousands of children everywhere while
satisfying your desire for some of the finest coffees in the world.
Many of our coffees are Fair Trade Coffees and as such, help the
coffee farmers on the wholesale side by paying a fair wage which is a
wonderful idea. We have taken it to the next level and are donating all
our retail profits to children as well as meeting the Fair Trade
Guidelines on the back end.
Mission Grounds Math
Our overhead only contains the costs to get the coffee to the store
and to display it properly. At the current time no employees are
receiving salaries of any kind.
Overhead expenses are less than 5% of the costs and 100% of the
profit are going to children. Please rest assured almost half of the
cost of your coffee is going directly to support children throughout
the world. Furthermore, by buying from small local farmers and paying
them a fair price for their beans, we are able to help the children by
pouring money into the local economy. But most of all, because we are
working directly with the missionaries on the ground, we get maximum
benefit from the dollars we raise!
Since our inception in late 2005 till Feb 2007 we have donated
$21,800 to children around the world. The bulk of this money has gone
to building the orphanage in Barquismeto.
This orphanage will hopefully be completed in early 2008. We have also
provided support to:
- Russia - an HIV clinic for babies and 5 orphanages in St. Petersburg
- Indonesia - provided baby formula to babies in Hac,Indonesia
- Kenya and South Africa - Support for an Orphanages
New Projects for 2007/2008
- China - Building a new orphanage/school
- Sudan - Building a school building around the Nabu Mountains in Southern Sudan
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