For several years Hani Coffee has served with friends from Texas to host an English camp at a high school a few hours outside of Kunming. The camp is a great opportunity to connect with students and teachers as well. Each class has between 50 to 60 students and lasts 45 minutes. During the week there is much joy, laughter and fun as we work together to encourage and build a learning foundation amongst the students. Read the rest of this entry »
Hani Coffee Goes to High School
July 30th, 2010Hani Coffee Travels Back to the Golden Triangle
June 28th, 2010
In a previous blog you read about the precious people who live in the “Golden Triangle”. You learned that the people who live in these beautiful tropical mountains, are impacted by human trafficking, drug trade, sex trade, child labor, abuse and slavery. It is a place where poverty, sexually transmitted disease and pain are commonplace. And to add to that, the area is suffering along with the rest of the province from a severe drought. Read the rest of this entry »
Journey to the Golden Triangle
January 25th, 2010
In March, a team of folks from all over the world will travel to a place known as the Golden Triangle. It is a place where 3 countries share borders, and the people of the area travel freely between countries. It is a fertile land where everything from coffee to mangoes are grown. It is also a place of extreme poverty. The farmers claw at the dirt to make enough money to keep the family fed. Many are uneducated and with such high poverty, many children begin farming alongside their parents when other children are headed to kindergarten. When all those factors come together, there are severe human tragedies.
Hidden by the beautiful tropical mountains and lush forests there, human trafficking, drug trade, sex trade, child labor, abuse and slavery are commonplace. In this place of poverty, AIDS, and pain, half of the team will be providing basic health, hygiene training, health care screening, and malnutrition supplements in villages and village schools. They will also be providing AIDS awareness training in a local vocational school to hundreds of high school aged children. While they are meeting those needs, the other half of the team will be partnering with a local village to provide them with clean drinking water. They will tap a natural spring almost 5 kilometers from the village and install pipe and water tanks. This is the first stage of partnering in this area as a new micro-enterprise is started up to grow and process high quality coffee. This is a great time for you to join the journey. Stay connected as we keep you updated…
Your friends at: Hani Coffee Co.
Merry Christmas from Hani Coffee Co.
December 20th, 2009
We at Hani Coffee want to thank you all!
It has been a great year as we have begun this journey together. We have been able to do so much in the way of meeting needs among the Hani people and their communities. More children now have an opportunity at education; more villages now have access to clean water; and more remote communities continue to receive health and nutrition education! It truly has been an amazing year.We have begun moving Hani Coffee Co. into the next steps to becoming a business with a vision for making a difference. There are many things to share with you in the coming months, but for now, we want to focus on the holiday and all it brings.
Sharing the Vision @ the 2009 Nordica Christmas Fair
December 13th, 2009This past weekend Hani Coffee Co manned a booth at this year’s Annual Christmas Fair hosted by Nordica. Let me just say that it was a huge success! Throughout the two-day event, we were able to not only serve great coffee but also share the heart, vision, and passion behind Hani Coffee Co.
More Water for a Great Village!
December 13th, 2009This month found us in a very remote area of Southwest Yunnan. We went to a little village where we’ve been before, with the objective of repairing a water spring we had tapped a couple of years ago. We are trying to maximize the amount of drinkable water to the village so that there is enough water for them year around.It was a great time reuniting with the village and as always we feel at home with these old friends. We had several of the village men working with us, even though many villagers were busy harvesting rice and wheat crops.
It was great to reconnect with these folks and to see how our community development efforts have made such a difference. It is really their efforts that have made the biggest difference. They continue to make their village a better place for their children by encouraging them to be healthy and to get an education. The closest school is about 4 KM away, but the kids gladly make the daily hike.
Over the last three years we have helped to provide clean accessible drinking water, provide basic health care training and assist with development strategies for the village. Our goals for the near future are to continue giving nutritional training to young mothers and children. We also are hoping to begin some micro enterprise opportunities for the village in order to help raise their income to a more reasonable level.
Your friends at: Hani Coffee Co.
Hello From China…
June 23rd, 2009Hello,
I’m writing to update you about my internship in south China. It’s been quite an adventure thus far. I’ve had several unique experiences with the different food, culture, and people. Most, if not all of them, have been very humorous experiences. I’m a bit strapped for time so I’ll save the details for when I get back.
I am already halfway finished with my trip, and I have taken water samples in 37 villages so far. From this point on, I’ll mainly be focused on designing future water infrastructure for a few of the villages in need. The area where I’m staying is extremely beautiful, and I hope to be able to show you some of the photos that I’ve taken along the way.
Overall, its been a great experience. The people are more than generous and extremely friendly. They are a people rich in culture and customs; however, there is a very large western influence finding its way into Chinese life. The food is a bit strange, in my opinion, but that was expected. My diet has been radically changed from the typical male college student’s diet, but I can usually find a few dishes that remind me of home, at least in some ways. I’ve even had several meals where I would’ve liked to get the recipe. One thing is for sure, the Chinese people do not lack food or appetite in my experience - they feed you ’til you’re full and then feed you more. Since I’ve been here, they have fed me 3 square meals a day and I’ve never left the table without being extremely full.
I’m having a great time, and my research is going well. I’m also anxious to get back to Texas and see family and friends. Thanks for all the prayers and support. I hope things are going well on the homefront. I’ll be talking with you soon.
-Calvin
Water to be sampled:
Collecting a sample:
Recording data:
And, some sweet local children:
Getting Started
May 7th, 2009WOW! we have been working really hard on connecting with you all.
This first few months has been full of getting our product available to you and putting together a means of getting to know us, the Hani, and the vision of Hani Coffee Co.
I had no idea all of the work involved in putting together a website. I am so very thankful for the guys at Three Stream! What an amazing team they are, and I cannot imagine having made it through this process without them.
It has really stretched us and made us consider who we are and why we are doing this. It is no small task taking what is in your heart and mind and trying to articulate it into text.
Many of the images on our site come from an amazing young woman at Amy Coffey Photography. She is truly an artist that has the ability to fill you with emotion and a desire to connect with the people and places in her images.
So many have been a part of getting this project off the ground I cannot put them all in one post. I do, however, want to say thanks to all of you… our customers and friends. Without your concern and support, this would be just another coffee company.
Let’s begin this journey together and see where it takes us.
