PALMA
THE Balearic ministry of social affairs has provided 1.6 million euros for a development project in Nicaragua and Guatemala, helping small coffee growers, and the results can now be seen in a mobile exhibition touring Palma.
The exhibition has been set up in a bus which will tour the Balearics and the Peninsula, raising awarenewess about fair trade coffee.
The Balearic funding for the scheme, run in collaboration with Intermon Oxfam, benefits 8'000 families directly, with indirect benefits to the residents of villages in the areas where the project is run, some 30'000 people in all.
This was revealed yesterday at the opening of the exhibition by Lorena Fernández, the Balearic director fo Intermon Oxfam, and Fina Santiago, the Balearic minister of social affairs, promotion and immigration.
The project works on several fronts: by improving quality and productivity with training courses; building storage centres; equipping laboratories to test the coffee, and improving the installations at the coffee plantations. The exhibition describes how coffee is produced, the variation in prices on the internatiaonal markets and what percentage of the price the consumer pays reaches the growers.
Called Discover the Aroma of a Fairer World, it shows the reality of the small coffee producers in impoverished countries, draws attention to the quality of the product and promotes a purchase which does not just evaluate the price but also the living conditions of those who produce it.
It gives people a chance not just to taste the coffee but also handle and smell the coffee beans.
The bus will be at Carrefour in Coll den Rebassa today and tomorrow, the Plaza España on Sunday and Plaza Juan Carlos on Monday, before going to Marratxi, Ciutadella and Mahon in Minorca and Ibiza.
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