Supporting Projects

For over twelve years those of us associated with Abäsärä Coffee have been supporting work in Asia and Africa on projects aimed at improving lives. Some examples are clean water resources, community health, literacy and education, translation of printed matter into indigenous languages, Bible translation, and micro-business development. With the objective of helping with the startup of desperately needed projects, our vision is that Abäsärä Coffee provides a stable funding resource. The end goal is to see those being helped become self-managing and self-supporting, thus becoming independent of oppressive governments and outside funding/control. Your purchase of these high quality fair trade and organic coffees is an important part of meeting these needs.

Projects

N. Africa – water wells repair and drilling, literacy development, translation of Bible stories, evangelistic radio programs

Asia – community health service and education, remote surgical camps, micro-business development, Bible translation, literacy development, agricultural training and marketing

Central America - humanitarian relief and micro-business development.

Water Well Repair and Drilling

Clean water availability is a common challenge for the world’s poorest regions. Many villages lack clean water due to war or environment related damage, destruction, poisoning, etc. Water-borne illness and high infant mortality is common in poor, undeveloped areas. The future of entire villages can depend on the provision of safe wells. Abäsärä helps support water well repair and drilling in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Medical Clinics and Community Health

What future do people have when they are ravaged by health problems rendering them unable to work or live normal lives? High infant mortality, inadequate resources to support the community and short life expectancy is common in poor/underdeveloped countries. Pain becomes a normal part of life. In North Africa, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is practiced on over 90% of very young girls. Medical and emotional implications are astounding. Clinics and community health programs bring hope and change through treatment and education. Abäsärä supports projects that provide medical care and education, including those working to end FGM.

Literacy and Translation

Illiteracy limits a person’s ability to fully engage in and compete with the literate community. Much information an illiterate person obtains is filtered through another person’s perspective. Literacy centers teach reading and writing in a person’s own language. As people become literate they are better equipped to interpret the world around them. Translation efforts assign oral languages an alphabet resulting in written resources. Translations of resources useful for health education can improve or even save lives! Education, trade and micro-business opportunities open up where previously there had been none. Abäsärä supports literacy and translation efforts in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Short-Term Teams

Teams of people from many walks of life volunteer to go to poor and/or oppressed areas of the world for the purpose of supporting the work being done by people who have dedicated their lives to serving indigenous peoples. “Short-termers” offer their personal giftings, job expertise or simply their hands for a set period of time to assist the efforts of these long-term workers. Part of our mission is to participate in organization, training, deployment and re-entry debriefing for these teams. The goal of these efforts is to improve lives by sowing seeds of hope and truth, thus the name Abäsärä, “to bring good news.”