CAMPO 20th Anniversary - Oaxaca, Mexico, Nov. 2008

On November 22, Coffee Kids’ partner, CAMPO, celebrated their 20th anniversary in Oaxaca, Mexico. They also dedicated their new training center, which was built with support from Coffee Kids. Coffee Kids staff attended the celebration.

The new training center teaches by example. It was built using an environmentally-friendly compacted earth technique. Similar to adobe, it involves building molds and compacting dirt to form a solid wall. They also incorporated a water catchment system that collects rainfall in two large cisterns below the building. The thick walls also keep the building cool in the summer and warm when the temperature drops.

CAMPO also has a number of demonstration projects to teach visitors from throughout the state of Oaxaca about organic gardening, permaculture, composting, fish farming, grey water treatment and bee keeping.

Over 800 people attended the celebration. Coffee Kids Communications Manager Kyle Freund gave a few words about the importance of CAMPO’s work and presented them with a certificate from Coffee Kids honoring their work to help improve the quality of life in the entire region.

Coffee Kids staff interviewed Eduardo Torres Navarrete, one of the founders of CAMPO. Visit the Coffee Kids blog at www.coffeekids.org/blog

Coffee Kids would like to thank all of our supporters who have made the projects we support possible.

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items are from between 22 Nov 2008 & 23 Nov 2008.