Fundraising-campaign GuateamalaCup
The history of Café Chixot
In the year 2000, a group of farmers living in the district Chimaltenango in the Guatemalan highlands decided to cultivate coffee at an altitude of more than 2,000 m. They were told that 2,000 m are way too high to grow coffee but there were also people saying that one could grow coffee of an extraordinary quality at this altitude.
The current situation in 2008
Today, there is a group of eight farmers and there is Santos Tuyúc. He is still a member of the cooperative Nuevos Horizontes but the current leader is David Mux Sotz. While Santos Tuyúc delivered a noteworthy amount of coffee to Norway in 2007, the other farmers sold their production directly from the plantation to customers in Antigua.
What we do with the money from the donations
The proceeds of the cup’s sale will be used for micro credits that are available for the small farmers and Santos Tuyúc. Especially Santos Tuyúc is in need of a budget equivalent to 7,000 US$. On average, he can only cover 20 percent of the costs by himself.