Many of our South American coffee producer groups are gearing up for this year’s harvest.  Depending on their altitude, harvest can start as early as March and last until November.  So what a better way to kick off the harvest than by lending nearly 1 million dollars to one of our larger coffee producers?

Established in 2001 as a private company made up of 5 individual cooperative, Cafe Peru provides 5,783 coffee producers access to the international market.  They also provide technical training (finance, agribusiness skills, etc) to their producers and invests in the social infrastructure of the community with communal roads, schools and health programs.

This is the largest amount of lending that Shared Interest has ever sent to a producer group and we’re very excited that Cafe Peru is looking forward to such a successful year!

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