Folks,
You've recovered your finances from the holidays and now you can kick in something to a very good cause ... planting coffee trees where they need to be, Haiti. This is a charitable donation, but the result is food produced and work provided to a people who could certainly use a one-off helping hand.
Anything donated is assured to go to the planting of the coffee trees, I personally know the person behind this effort, and so this is my rare pitch for help. Go now, and kick in anything you can. It all helps, even if it plants only one tree.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/911-haiti-coffee-trees
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
You've recovered your finances from the holidays and now you can kick in something to a very good cause ... planting coffee trees where they need to be, Haiti. This is a charitable donation, but the result is food produced and work provided to a people who could certainly use a one-off helping hand.
Anything donated is assured to go to the planting of the coffee trees, I personally know the person behind this effort, and so this is my rare pitch for help. Go now, and kick in anything you can. It all helps, even if it plants only one tree.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/911-haiti-coffee-trees
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
2 comments:
I would rather not subsidize people, I would rather help them by being productive and have them produce something of value that people want to buy. What is special about their coffee? Are they competing on design? Can their coffee be imported into the U.S. for a market that wants it?
It sounds like you are criticizing the effort, maybe not. What economy the Haitians had was wiped out by the storm and earthquakes the last few years, non-market events. Why I rarely push charity on this blog is because I cover market events. And charity is extremely difficult to do. But here is a chance to do charity right. Act of God wipes out means of production, charity replaces it. One off help, on to the next problem.
As to the market for coffee, my guess it will be Haiti. Since it grows well there, they will no longer have to import it as they do now. They can worry about exporting it later.
Make a donation and you will get some (at a certain level) so as to what makes it special, we'll all find out.
And as an aside, haiti is poor because the revenue of the installed base went to FRance for "reparations" for a slave revolt long ago.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/0817/France-dismisses-petition-for-it-to-pay-17-billion-in-Haiti-reparations
Some 90 million was “extorted” by the French crown for losses in slaves and property and “illegitimately forced a people who had won their independence in a successful slave revolt, to pay again for their freedom,” the letter states.
This went from 1804 to 1947... in essence an elite shipped the wealth to France while haitians enjoyed "independence." (NEVER use violence for change.) Haiti may finally be moving to peace and prosperity from their violent past. Join in by financing a tree.
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