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Sanitary Facilities for the Community

The Blue Coffee Bean

With Tchibo and Meister Kaffee as sponsors, and in partnership with Pavco and Corona, Expocafé is getting new sanitary facilities for the Seynekun community. This includes septic tanks and water efficient bathrooms.
Water Resource Management (WRM) is Expocafé's sustainability initiative, targeting economic, environmental and social sustainability goals, through work with coffee grower communities on adoption of approaches and habits that lead to reduced and adequate water use in coffee production and daily activities.
WRM includes training on key community, business and coffee aspects, and supports coffee production practices that impact crop productivity, which is directly related to coffee grower's income.
Coffees labeled with the WRM's blue coffee bean logo are guaranteed to be produced following responsible water management methods.

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Sensory Jouney

Unique light nut notes in aroma and fragance. Medium acidity. Medium body. Leaves an residual taste of walnuts in the palate.

People

Dioselina Izquierdo

Dioselina Izquierdo

She is 43 years old. Dioselina has 3 children: Abel(22), Louis(21) and Yuleidis(20). Her farm “San Patricio” has 5Ha, 1ha in coffee. They grow chives to sell as well. During harvest, she does the drying, selection, and storage of the coffee. The rest of the year she made the typical Arhuaco mochila bags.
Enilda Izquierdo

Enilda Izquierdo

She is 44 years old. Enilda has 3 children: Atibwnkey(18), Atikwakuma(16) and Seyrwngumun(13). Her farm “The Acwace “ has 10ha, 5ha in coffee, 4ha natural reserve, and 1ha is dedicated to mandarins, oranges, plantain, corn for auto consumption. She is a leader in her community.
Duy Atabey

Duy Atabey

She is 26 years old. Duy has 1 child: Sara Sofia(2). Her farm “El Silencio” has 2ha. 1 ½ in coffee. She is in charge of all the tasks in the farm, her mom help her. She is cheerful and likes to get up early in the morning. She wants to improve her house, improve the coffee processes and see her daughter happy.
Cesar Agusto Mestre

Cesar Agusto Mestre

He is 63 years old. Cesar has 2 children: Ceidyn(4) and Pumeku(3). His farm “La solucion” has 15ha, 5ha in coffee, 3ha natural reserve. Don Cesar is hardworking, creative and resourceful. He enjoys inventing and farm is consider a model to follow in the region.
Elvia Gondiba

Elvia Gondiba

She is 26 years old. Elvia has 1 child: Mileidys(3). Her farm “El Reposo” has 3ha, 2ha in coffee. With her mom, they work the farm. Elvia is hard working. She wants to learn how to improve the coffee processes and would like to help her daughter get an education.
Carlos Izquierdo

Carlos Izquierdo

He is 53 years old. Carlos has 2 children: Luis(21) and Yuleidis(20). He is the Cabildo of the central region in Jewrwa. Carlos farm is 10ha. 3ha in coffee, 5ha in a natural reserve.He wants to be able to leave an inheritance to his kids and see his community strong and flourishing.
Eugenia Torres

Eugenia Torres

She is 40 years old. Eugenia has 5 children: Marelbi(18), Daniel(8) Mercedes(6) Aquilina(4), Jorge(2). Her farm “San Chepa” 2ha and almost all in coffee. The farm produces as well sugarcane, oranges, plantains. They have pigs and chickens. Where the harvest passed she will work in the Mochilas bags.
Florinda Torres

Florinda Torres

She is 45 years old. Florinda has 4 children: Elber(20), Cunimaco(18), Daniela(13) and Maria Carolina(10). Her farm “Masinga” have 1 ½ ha. 1ha in coffee. The farm is located 2 hours from Puerto Bello. She produces chives to sell as well. She would like to see her kids getting an education.
Ines Izquierdo

Ines Izquierdo

She has 4 children. Her farm has 2ha in coffee and with her husband, they work the farm. Ines produces plantain, sugarcane to auto consume. Ines likes to work in the coffee farm in all activities from harvesting to drying. She would like to have a bathroom in her house and better tools to processes the coffee.
Josefa Conrado

Josefa Conrado

She is 71 years old. She is a widow. She has 8 children. Fabian(50), Edit(48), Omar(46), Damaris(44), Eder(43), Emerson(42), Seningumo(30) and Ywia(27). She has around 3000 coffee plants. Josefa wants to be healthy and to be left good memories as her husband. She hopes her family love each other.
Jose Niño

Jose Niño

He is 79 years old. He has 6 children. Luis, Jose, Sara, Ricardo Teresita and Judith. His farm have 5ha. 2 ha in coffee 3ha in sugarcane. Jose has been a community leader since his youth. He wants to keep improving his farm and is proud of his children’s love for the countryside.
Luisa Izquierdo

Luisa Izquierdo

She is 64 years old. 32 years since her husband died. She had 8 children, six alive: Nelson(48), Eder(46), Mario(44), Hernan(43), Sofia(40), Leonilda(28). La Esperanza Farm has 1ha. Now she lives by herself and makes Mochilas gain extra income. She wants to have a bathroom in her house because now she is older now.
Maria del Carmen Zalabata

Maria del Carmen Zalabata

She is 57 years old. She has 7 children. El Palomar farm has 3ha. 1 ½ ha in coffee. Plantain, cassava plants, and a garden.She is in charge of all the activities on the farm and her sons help her. She would like to have a bathroom in her house and help her small children get an education.
Nubia Conrado

Nubia Conrado

She is 44 years old. She has 4 children: Arutiney(20), Duinaria(17), Francisco(15) and Sirley(13). His older son works with her the farm. The farm is 1ha. She wants to have a better house to live and to learn more about how to improve the coffee process.
Nuris Izquierdo

Nuris Izquierdo

She is 21 years old. She has 1 kid: Julian Torres Izquierdo(1). Her husband name is Ywatumgamo and he is a teacher in the elementary school. The farm has 1ha all in coffee. She wants to continue studying, see her son grows and stay close to her family.
Teresila Suarez

Teresila Suarez

She is 52 years old. She has 6 children: Victor(33), Dayro(30), Francisco(28), Jorge(27), Edwin(24) and Miriam(18). Her farm “El diamante” has 5ha. 2 ½ in coffee additionally sugarcane, cassava. Making Mochila help Teresila year around. They have a solar plant. She is very responsible.
Vellanira Izquierdo

Vellanira Izquierdo

She is 47 years old. She has 5 children: Nubia(30), Alonso(24) Nuris(20) Carlos(18), Eila(10). Her farm “San Chepa” has 2ha. She produces coffee, sugar cane. Vellanira is in charge of all activities on the farm. She is very hardworking and with an entrepreneur spirit.
Alix Conrado

Alix Conrado

She is 45 years old. Alix has 6 children. Diana(26), Fredy(24). Edit(22), Jesus(18), Marlis(16) and Marlin(14). The farm has 2ha, 1ha in coffee. She works the farm along with her partner Edison. Alix wants to help her youngest children to finish high school and improves the family house.
Edith Mejia

Edith Mejia

Her farm Las Palmita is located in Jwidedy. Edith has 900 coffee plants. Colombia variety

Tchibo

As one of the biggest German consumer goods and retail companies operating internationally, Tchibo recognises its responsibility towards people and the environment. As a family-owned company, this is the only way we can continue to offer our customers the attractions that set the Tchibo brand apart: consummate roasted-coffee expertise combined with a weekly changing assortment of consumer goods. Our goal is to become a 100% sustainable business. Sustainability has been an integral part of Tchibo's corporate strategy since 2006.
To offer prime coffee quality, Tchibo is committed to protecting the environment and improving the living conditions of coffee farmers.

Meister Kaffee

In 1983 master baker Hottum and Heinz founded the brand MEISTER KAFFEE with the goal to combine high-quality pastries with high class coffee. Since then Meister Kaffee coffee is sold exclusively in bakeries and confectionery.
Meister Kaffee is partially owned by Tchibo Coffee Service and BÄKO and sources its coffee exclusively from Tchibo.

Expocafé

Expocafé is the exporter of coffee grower’s cooperatives, has a high and strict commitment to quality coffees that manages and delivers to its customers. Our trademark Expocafé is a product differentiator. We are in direct contact with the various coffee producing communities located throughout the Colombian coffee area and promote direct communication between customers and growers.
Expocafé, with over 35 years of business experience, is always a guarantee of performance, quality and transparency for our customers

Pavco Wavin

Wavin has solutions for drinking water, sewerage, rainwater management, pipeline rehabilitation technologies and sustainable infrastructure projects with geo-synthetics. Our production plants are located in Bogotá and Guachené, and distribution centers in the main cities of the country.
We are part of a community of companies that are under the umbrella of a global company that in 2019 changed its name from Mexichem to Orbia. With our transformation to Orbia, the business units assumed a new structure and the one corresponding to Pavco took the name Wavin.
Wavin, a company with more than 60 years of history and a presence in 40 countries, is the leading European brand of plastic pipes and the creator of the first PVC pressure pipe in the world, in 1955 in Zwolle, Holland.
For us, this change leads us to face challenges from a broader perspective of the global market, which will allow us to achieve greater efficiencies in the value chain as well as new technologies and processes focused 100% on our clients.

Corona

Corona, in line with the commitment it has towards its collaborators, suppliers, customers, consumers and the communities where it has a presence, works day after day to continue strengthening its management in financial, social and environmental aspects for the development of the country.

Caficosta

Caficosta is the Coffee Cooperative of the Colombian North Coast, the result of the initial association of 600 producers between peasants and indigenous people, whose main base is the agricultural economy. Now the cooperative is made up of the laborious hands of more than 2,600 associates, among these 600 women and 500 organic producers, providing purchase guarantee to more than 12,600 coffee growers in the four departments of the Caribbean region: Bolívar, Cesar, La Guajira and Magdalena.

FNC's Cesar, Magdalena and Guajira Commettes

A private, non-profit, trade association. Founded on June 27, 1927 by the producers themselves, today it represents more than 540,000 coffee growing families in Colombia, 5 thousand of them located in Magdalena and integrating more than 4,914 coffee growing families. Our objective is to position and make visible the coffee of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the national and international market as a great experience of consumption for being a highly differentiated product and desired by clients and final consumers due to its high standards of quality and the wonderful stories behind our coffee growing families.

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