CRAFTS AND COFFEE

CAFÉ QUINDÍO S.A.S.is an enterprise compromised with the social development, in an alliance with the National Institute for Learning Service (SENA in Spanish). It has developed a project that consists on the elaboration of craft packages made of natural biodegradable fiber called GUASCA (pseudo-stem of plantain).

They are made by Young Rural Entrepreneurs and are used to take products as gifts and souvenirs. In this kind of program the SENA trains a population compounded by handicapped people, young poor people without a chance of getting a good education ,nor the chance to produce the income for them or their families. CAFÉ QUINDÍO S.A.S. supports them in the commercialization.

That program is also foster with single raising mothers.

GENOVAS ESPECIAL COFFEE

In the mountains of the heart of COLOMBIA, in the municipality of GÉNOVA QUINDÍO there is a great community, COMPROMISED WITH QUALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, traditionally they have worked with honesty and dedication in the production of sustainable coffee and from origin.

Under the association ”ASOCAFES FROM GÉNOVA”, supported by the MAJOR’S OFFICE from the municipality, the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE as the managing-promoting Organization , and the MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE with the program Productive Alliances; entities that with ethical and social criterion have contributed to the production of ARÁBIGA variety of coffee, with a profile of special cup.

Cup’s Profile Fruitlike and balanced: This Arábiga has a fine acidity with sweet touches.

Body: Balanced.
Aroma: Pronounced.
Flavor: Intense.
Cultivation: Cultivated on a height between 1600m and 1800m above sea-level by small coffee-growers, hand-collected and treated with wet method.

Behind each cup of coffee there is a high social content.

Presentation 340 gr.