If you visited our farms, you would see the masonry worker housing of one generation, the retention ponds of another, the contour plantings of another, the community kitchens of yet another, and schools built by another. You might be surprised to see families dining on spotless tiled tables. The cooks might tell you that workers no longer cut down valuable trees for firewood, now that all the kitchens have modern propane stoves. You may be surprised to see there is a fully stocked infirmary with a full-time nurse who rotates among the farms on a weekly basis. Fara Coffee sponsors monthly visits from traveling medical teams led by a doctor, and emergency situations receive rapid transport to a local hospital.

If you chatted with the civic leaders around Matagalpa, you might hear about the soccer fields and municipal gymnasium that Fara Café quietly facilitated or the hundreds of neo-natal masks that were brought down in suitcases to replace makeshift masks of plastic cups, Scotch tape, and tubing. You would surely be told how Fara Coffee stepped up, again quietly, in the midst of a medical strike and public health meltdown with a large contribution of critical medical equipment and supplies.

Through generations of coffee production, the Fara Coffee family understands that it is our responsibility to aid socioeconomic progress, beginning with local communities.