Projects
Casa da Criança
e do Jovem Amparense
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Background
Casa da Criança e do Jovem Amparense is a youth-focused facilty with a rich history of community service in Santo Antônio do Amparo, Brazil. Established in the 1980s by José Carlos Avelar, the organization aimed to provide social support to children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Solution
Empowering Youth trough integrated community support and sustainability initiatives.
Empowering Youth Through Integrated Community Support and Sustainability Initiatives
To ensure the continued success and sustainability of Casa da Criança e do Jovem Amparense, the following solution is proposed:
- Expand Vocational Training: Build upon the existing infrastructure to offer modern, market-relevant courses such as digital skills, sustainable agriculture, and entrepreneurship, aligning with local needs and opportunities like coffee production.
- Strengthen Community Partnerships: Leverage collaborations with organizations like Hanns Neumann Stiftung do Brasil, NKG – Fazenda da Lagoa, and local schools to create programs that integrate education, cultural heritage, and income generation.
- Promote Sustainable Development: Encourage projects that connect youth with the coffee industry through creative initiatives (e.g., contests like “O Mundo do Café”) while teaching sustainable practices.
- Continuous Funding and Support: Establish a dedicated fund to ensure the facility remains operational and can consistently offer high-quality programs for young people.
This approach integrates Casa da Criança’s mission with broader sustainability goals, creating a thriving, resilient future for the community and its youth.
With every bag you buy of these coffees you support Casa da Criança with 10 Cents/kg.
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Background
Key aim: Safeguarding the future of green coffee supplies by ensuring that coffee farming is a fincially viable business that can provide fincial security to families.
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Solution
Empowers farmers to run their business at full potential, through custom service packages that include training in coffee-farming and business best practices, plus access to markets, infrastructure, inputs and seedlings.
Provides easy access to short- and long-term financing, sof farmers can invest in their farms and enter a pathway out of poverty.
What is NKG Bloom?
NKG Bloom is our initiative to ensure the future of green coffee supplies by offering smallholder farmers and farmer groups the opportunities and resources they need to run their farms at full potential, optimize their incomes for long-term success and enter pathways out of poverty.
Through dedicated teams within our export companies, NKG Bloom identifies and addresses barriers to farmer success and offers individuals and farmer groups bespoke combinations of services centered around financing.
Already changing lives in its first years of implementation, NKG Bloom’s goal is to meaningfully improve the livelihoods of 300,000 coffee-farming families across 10 countries by 2030.
Value to farmers:
Custom services to optimize their coffee business through access to seedlings, fertilizers, inputs, infrastructure, and trainings.
Accessible financing, including quick mobile financing and substantial funding for larger projects, so families can invest in long-term farm health.
Supporting an “inclusive sustainability” perspective so that farmers have the knowledge about practices to meet sustainable production criteria and address them effectively, to ensure a healthy and bright future of coffee.
Value to green coffee buyers:
An active role in supporting coffee-farming families and addressing the key issues faced by the industry.
The ability to take ownership of key performance metrics related to purchased coffees and share them with customers.
Possibility to implement special projects at origin, by building on the knowledge, networks and enthusiasm of NKG Bloom Farmer Services Units.
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Background
Key aim: Providing traceable coffees produced on farms that comply with specific social, environmental and economic criteria.
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Solution
Offers customers insights into the economic, social and environmental performance of the farms producing their coffees.
Provides sustainability assurance through internal and third-party audits from farm to export level.
Aligns width industry standards and integrates easily into customers’ sustainability plans.
What is NKG Verified?
NKG Verified offers customers traceable coffees that meet key sustainability criteria. It provides visibility into identified supply chains and their performance on key economic, social and environmental indicators — all verified by a third party. With every shipment of NKG Verified coffees, customers receive an easy-to-read sustainability report detailing each indicator and how it scored, as well as the coffee’s overall sustainability score.
NKG Verified aligns with and contributes to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that support economic growth, address social issues and enhance environmental protection.
Value to green coffee buyers:
- Compliance with key sustainability criteria.
- Traceability to specific supply chains.
- Assurances through internal NKG audits and external, third-party audits.
- Based on audit results, action plans are developed to improve the supply chains sustainability performance.
- Easy integration into sustainable buying plans, plus the option to customize requirements.
As of December 2023, NKG Verified has reached over 30,000 farms in 10 countries including Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Uganda, Kenya, India, Indonesia and Vietnam. We will continue expanding the NKG Verified volumes in 2024.
Discover The Signature Collection
Coffee is a feeling: In every sip of our coffee, there are the stories of the farmers and the beauty of the regions from which it hails. This requires a strong foundation of knowledge and passion for the product, along with years of expertise and the most valuable connections.
The core of The Signature Collection is our commitment to consistently deliver high quality and the distinct flavor of each origin.
You can not only taste it, you can feel it. That’s why we call it “This Coffee Feeling”!
Feel Colombia’s Passion
Brown sugar and toffee.
Velvety texture meets fresh acidity.
BESO BESO shows a lively, citrusy freshness at the outset which evolves into a complex interplay of acidity. It’s a harmonious blend of flavors featuring ripe peach and brown sugar with a hint of nuts and toffee. The lingering aftertaste has a refreshing finish.
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Feel Brazil’s casual culture
Hazelnut and chocolate. Balanced with a soft texture.
BOM DIA impresses with a balanced acidity ranging from gentle to citrusy. A silky texture promises a pleasant mouthfeel. Flavours of cherry, chocolate, hazelnut, raisin, and toffee combine to create an unparalleled taste with a delightful finish and a long-lasting aftertaste.
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Feel Papua New Guinea’s Joy of Life
Herbs, blackcurrant, and mandarin. Vibrant acidity and intense sweetness.
HAI TAMBU combines a lively acidity and the incomparable sweetness from black currant with a hint of mandarin. Depth is added by the subtle taste of herbs and caramel. A balanced cup with a velvety body and a refreshing aftertaste.
