Children of a coffee-growing family at origin

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Grounds for Health cervical-cancer screening

Grounds for Health

Goal: $1,000

Women's health programs in coffee communities since 1996, including HPV screening and treatment for cervical cancer.

$1,000 funds a full day of cervical-cancer screening at a coffee farm or local church.

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Project Alianza child at school in a coffee-growing community

Project Alianza

Goal: $1,000

Rural education for children in coffee-growing communities across Latin America, training local women as teachers and preventing dropouts.

16 schools built, reaching over 27,000 children in coffee-growing communities since 2017.

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A World Bicycle Relief bicycle recipient

World Bicycle Relief Australia

Goal: $2,500

Life-changing bicycles that give people in coffee-growing communities real access to school, work, healthcare and markets.

$2,500 provides 10 bicycles, opening up school, work and healthcare for a whole community.

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Previous projects

Bosques Verdes cooperative partner with new drying beds

Cooperativa Bosques Verdes, Peru

$5,000 raised · 2021

Zest funded fermentation tanks and sun-covered drying areas for smallholder coffee families in San Ignacio, Cajamarca, Peru, to improve quality and farm-gate price. Bosques Verdes matched the project with their own contribution, reaching 11 families with fermentation tanks and 7 families with covered drying modules.

The Zest and Pillcocaja teams in Ecuador

Pillcocaja Coffee Farm

Ecuador · 2022

Experimental processing with the team at Pillcocaja, a long-term producer partnership bringing their great coffees to Australia. Manny and Darren represented Zest on the farm during harvest, picking, processing and drying alongside the team.

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Sorting coffee cherries at the Jack Murat farm in Mareeba

Jack Murat Project

Mareeba, Australia · 2021

Zest donated fermentation barrels and the materials for shade-covered drying beds, then spent three weeks picking, processing and drying 10 different lots to research how processing affects flavour in Australian-grown coffee.

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Evaluating fermented coffee cherries at the Nolasco farm in Peru

Peru Nolasco Project

Peru · 2021

Aryan and Darren spent a week at the farm with the Nolasco family. Zest donated three large fermentation tanks and paid for the materials for new raised drying beds and covered drying beds.

Community group in the Gayo region of Sumatra

Sumatra Gayo Initiative

Sumatra, Indonesia · 2016

Robert and James took part in a community project in the Gayo region of Sumatra, supporting training, research and coffee community education for local growers.

At the El Vergel farm in Colombia with a Gesha lot marker

El Vergel Koji Project

Colombia · 2022

A hands-on project with long-term producer partners El Vergel, experimenting with Koji mould in processing to bring out exceptional flavours. Damon, Leo and Aryan were on the ground for the trial.

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