Help has sailed in

Ocean Classroom spent a week helping the cocoa farmers of Grenada.  Fifty students worked side by side with local agricultural students to clear brush, plant cocoa trees, 

harvest cocoa pods, help in the fermentation process, and make cocoa balls.

Pick up time early in the a.m., everybody is ready to work.

Bagging dried cocoa...

After clearing the bush, the students planted 100 trees ,.... in one morning.

 A well deserved soak in the cool water.

Winter Fundraiser

Cocoa Farming Future Initiative

Winter Fundraiser!

We Are The Nonprofit 

Cocoa Farming Future Initiative

Working To Support The Cocoa Farmers Of Grenada

Where The Sun And The Earth Combine To Produce 

The World’s Most Flavorful Cocoa,

The Basis For The Chocolate We Love. 

Farmers world-wide work to obtain a balance of conditions which will produce a plentiful harvest. In Grenada in recent years this has been more difficult due to hurricane damage and a lack of infrastructure. CFFI is working to support farmers by clearing storm debris, increasing crop yields and facilitating harvest transportation. We also work with farm community youth and women to develop marketable goods to supplement family incomes and improve standards of living.

It's A New Year And A Lot Has Happened.

If You Haven't Seen Our New Blog

Or Gone To The Website Lately...

We Have Some Exciting New Ideas 

That We Would Like Your Help With. 

We are reaching out to you today to help us with our farming ventures, education and job-skills training.

By donating you will have a direct impact on the lives of men, women and children farming in their communities. For example, donating $25 buys work boots, cocoa saplings, water jugs, simple tools like notebooks, pens, erasers, or calculators all of which are important to helping our community become more independent. Donating $50-$100 provides farming tools, wheelbarrows, or sewing kits. Donating $100-$300 buys a bicycle, a sewing machine, or a carpentry kit to help a family become more financially secure. With a generous donation of $500 or more you could provide enough funds to hire a laborer and help him feed his family. These are just a few of our new ideas of how you can help improve the quality of life in a cocoa farming community of Grenada….  

We would really appreciate your help...

To donate click on this link to our website:

http://cffigrenada.org/CFFI_donate.html

All donations made through our fundraising campaign are considered gifts to 

CFFI's global mission. 

Helping farmers there helps the whole planet.

http://cffigrenada.blogspot.com

http://cffigrenada.org

Eco-Tourism

It is not too late to join us.

There is still lots of work to do

and we could use a hand...

But, underneath the waterfall it is all play.

Vacation for Change

You can see the sites, experience the history, and enjoy the wonderful climate 

while helping the cocoa farmers.

Contact Dorise

doko@cffigrenada.org

or call her at

603.863.6366

Vacation for a Change

Winter is coming,

days are short.

Why shovel snow,

when you could be picking cocoa?

Work together with the farmers

harvesting their cocoa in the

 paradis de l'ile aux epices! 

You'll learn how to ferment and shuffle cocoa...

Take day trips with CFFI guides to St. George and the beach, or

walk in the rain forest to the water falls...

You can make cocoa balls with Missis Agatha...

or go fishing with the locals...

and enjoy the tastes and sights of island life...

Proposed trip dates 2013

January 20-27

February 17-24 (optional extra week of work & Carnival)

March 10-17

Space is limited to seven guests on each trip.

For more information contact:

Dorise Kowalewski

doko@cffigrenada.org

603-863-6366

See www.cffigrenada.org to read about our mission.