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J.J. Darboven for Business Customers

Find out more about J.J. Darboven as your hot beverage partner. Thanks to our many years of experience in sales, we know that taste is not the only thing that matters - many other criteria are also important.

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J.J. Darboven – more than 150 years of tradition and love for coffee, tea and cocoa

Out of the company founded in a small office in Hamburg’s old town in 1866, a blossoming international company has developed with a wide range of diverse products.

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The J.J. Darboven Shop

In our shop you can buy our exclusive coffee brands. Whether IDEE KAFFEE, Café Intención, EILLES KAFFEE or Mövenpick - here you will find all our products for your home.

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Apprenticeship at J.J. Darboven

Our owner takes care of the quality of our apprenticeships personally. We offer both administrative and technical apprenticeships. 

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Regional and international - Working for J.J. Darboven

J.J. Darboven is a traditional and cosmopolitan family business. You can find out more about us as employers, our apprenticeships, and current vacancies here.

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Darbohne – J.J. Darboven’s little mascot

We love coffee beans, which is why the little Darbohne is our faithful mascot. Lovingly designed comics told the adventures of Darbohne in rhyming verse as early as in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

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H.E.L.P. - Education

In addition to our coffee-growing related activities, we would also like to use H.E.L.P. to improve the educational conditions for children in Santa Bárbara. H.E.L.P. has selected three schools in San Nicolas, which are the current focus of the project.

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H.E.L.P. - The Honduras Education Life Project

H.E.L.P. is a support project with which we have been improving the growing, living and educational conditions of coffee farmers in Honduras since 2016. Due to the great demand and the many successes of H.E.L.P., the number of participants has steadily increased. On the following pages you will learn everything about the successes and goals of H.E.L.P..

Find out about H.E.L.P.

Over 150 years of coffee culture: Tradition, responsibility and enjoyment

Find out more about the history of the traditional Hamburg company J.J. Darboven: From a small trader of colonial goods to international warm beverage specialists.

Our history

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

The Darboven IDEE Sponsorship Prize for female company founders

The IDEE Sponsorship Prize is the only national award for innovative ideas of female entrepreneurs. Albert Darboven has been awarding this prize since 1997 to encourage women who dare to take the step into entrepreneurial independence.

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News regarding the J.J. Darboven company

Here we inform you about new products, events, and other news concerning our company. In addition, various press releases and contact options are available to representatives of the press.

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Products of organic and fairtrade quality - that's what J.J. Darboven stands for

Since 1866 J.J. Darboven has stood for the high quality of coffee, tea, and cocoa. The company was the first wholesale roaster to introduce fairtrade coffee at the beginning of the 1990s. This has been followed by many other products of Fairtrade and organic quality to this day.

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Our brands - coffee, tea, and cocoa for your enjoyment

Alfredo Espresso’s Italian vitality, Café Intención’s Fairtrade quality, the particularly mild IDEE KAFFEE, the tasty diversity of EILLES TEE, or the chocolate experiments by COCAYA - find out all about these and many more beloved J.J. Darboven brands.

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H.E.L.P. - The project participants

 

Since the start of H.E.L.P. in 2016 we are accompanying three project participants who, with their stories and challenges, are exemplary for the around 300 project participants. We are very pleased that Yolanda, Nora and Melvin have made great progress in the past few years.

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J.J. Darboven stands for social responsibility, sustainability, and commitment

Darboven is getting to it. This applies not only to our dealings with business partners and customers, but also to our diverse social commitments. In Hamburg, Germany and internationally.

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H.E.L.P. - Successes and outlook

In the first three years of the project, H.E.L.P. has already made some great progress. For example, while the average yield per hectare of project participants before the start of the project was significantly below the national average, this has now become above average. H.E.L.P. will continue to support farmers in Honduras and has also set ambitious goals for the next five years.

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Social and ecological responsibility - that's what J.J. Darboven stands for

As a family business, J.J. Darboven has always felt obliged to practice and preserve values. Fairness and responsibility for future generations are therefore part of our corporate identity.

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H.E.L.P. - Working locally

The Honduras Education Life Project is located in Santa Bárbara, one of the oldest but also poorest coffee growing areas in Honduras. Our on-site activities include promoting agricultural skills and imparting business knowledge.

Find out about H.E.L.P.'s activities

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.

“Perfection is not a state of being but the continuous effort to achieve completeness.”

-Albert Darboven
For more than 150 years, we at J.J. Darboven have devoted ourselves to roasting the finest coffee beans, producing extraordinary coffee creations and distributing exclusive coffee brands. Brief: We love coffee. And we love tea and cocoa. But what we love above all is sharing our passion for warm beverages.
  • HOMEResponsibility H.E.L.P. Project participants

With H.E.L.P. from the beginning

Three coffee growers, three individual stories

At our first visit to Santa Bárbara at the start of the project, we met three H.E.L.P. participants whose progress we have since followed with special attention. Yolanda Paz, Melvin Izaguera and Nora Sogastume are very different people, and their stories provide examples of the different starting situations, challenges, expectations and wishes that H.E.L.P. addresses. At the very first follow-on visit, their improvements showed how effective even quickly implemented measures can be.

H.E.L.P. and Yolanda Paz

Yolanda Paz was one of the first to register for H.E.L.P. in 2016. Previously she had taken over a one-hectare coffee plantation from her father. In Honduras, that’s still a rarity for a young, unmarried woman. Furthermore, she lived on the farm with her parents, siblings and other family members.
 
From the beginning it was clear that Yolanda’s situation was unusual. But she had the ambition to make her own way and show all the sceptics, especially her father, that she could do it. A further aggravating factor is the debt that Yolanda’s family owes to a middleman, paying it off year by year with the harvest. For Yolanda that is just more motivation, and she hopes with the aid of H.E.L.P. to achieve long-term success through ongoing individual assistance.

Her goal was to produce larger harvests of good-quality coffee, and thanks to measures designed specifically for her, she has already met this goal. Indeed, through her hard work she has exceeded expectations. Yolanda is a very active and ambitious participant in the project and would like to achieve much more as a coffee grower. She’s an example to others, and even her father now respects her commitment.

H.E.L.P. and Melvin Izaguera

Melvin is a very interesting case. With honest self-criticism, he admits that when he signed up for H.E.L.P. he knew almost nothing about growing coffee. He cultivated his one-hectare plot as best he could, but getting to the coffee plants took time and transporting the harvest away was very difficult. Another major problem was that he processed and dried his coffee beans in his house – the same house his family lives in.
 
Melvin hoped through H.E.L.P. to reach a harvest of 450 kg. In 2016 that meant doubling his harvest. This faith in the aid project shows that he saw H.E.L.P. as an opportunity to become a professional coffee grower. Through the initial analysis of his current situation, professional advice and training by the H.E.L.P. agronomist responsible for his case, and further training, he has reached his harvest goal. In addition to other quickly implemented measures, he moved processing and drying of the harvest out of his house and into a transportable solar dryer. This alone resulted in a great increase in the quality of his product, as well has improving his family’s quality of life substantially.
 
It’s nice to see Melvin, who seemed unsure of himself at the start of the project, now acting as a confident coffee grower, eager to learn more and to help other farmers with tips and advice.

H.E.L.P. and Nora Sogastume

Nora was an impressive project participant from the start. She joined the project as a self-confident single mother of an 8-year-old son. She cultivates a hectare of very steep land right behind her house. Nora had experience in coffee growing, but typically did not act with a long-term or business perspective. The rust disease affecting her coffee plants was also a major concern.
 
Thanks to individual assistance and close cooperation with the H.E.L.P. team, Nora not only increased her original 600 kg coffee harvest, she also lowered her costs. New methods for water treatment near her little hacienda had a positive effect, including on the environment. Further measures are currently being implemented. In order to secure her long-term success, currently she is working towards the goal of having her coffee production certified.
 
Other coffee growers respect Nora for her abilities, and in trainings she passes on her experience to other project participants, especially women.

Interview with Nora Sogastume (In German)

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