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Creating Youth Business Acumen and Micro-enterprise in Rural Nicaragua

Fabretto Children’s Foundation Mayorga Coffee Roasters September 2013

Contents

• About Fabretto
• SAT Program Overview
• Microenterprise & SAT
• Impact Assessment
• Case Studies

SEPTEMBER 2013 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS

History

SEPTEMBER 2013 3 ABOUT FABRETTO

FABRETTO’S MISSION

To empower underserved children and their families in Nicaragua to reach their full potential, improve their livelihoods, and take advantage of economic opportunity through education and nutrition.

5 ABOUT FABRETTO

SAT: Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial

(Tutorial Learning System)

SEPTEMBER 2013 6 SAT PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The SAT Program

• Non-formal high school

degree program

• Founded by FUNDAEC in the

1970’s

• Focus on sustainable

agriculture and rural development

• Uses trained tutors to

facilitate learning

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The Need

• Just 20% of rural

Nicaraguans continue beyond 6th grade

• SAT serves 760 students

in 40 communities

• SAT reaches a diverse,

traditionally underserved population: young women, young parents,

• lder students

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Methodology

• 5 competencies:

communication, mathematics, science, technology, and community service

• Hands-on learning
• Develops strong values
• Fosters entrepreneurship

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SAT Impact in 2013

760

enrolled SAT students

22

SAT small business owners

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200

student cooperative members

100%

• f SAT graduates are employed
• r furthering education

Tinker Foundation/UPenn study

The SAT Difference: Microenterprise

Moving from “Learn by Doing” to “Learn by Earning”

SEPTEMBER 2013 11 MICROENTERPRISE

Microenterprise & SAT

Fabretto’s Goal:

Grow student businesses and link student producers to value chains to contribute to rural community development

SEPTEMBER 2013 12 MICROENTERPRISE

Role of SAT

• Foster values: responsibility, organization, ethics
• Develop technical skills
• Anchor clients and link students with existing markets

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Process

Learn Practice Purpose Profit

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Science lesson about composting Practice composting techniques in Fabretto garden Offer compost to local producers Earn money from sale of

• rganic

compost

Case se Study: udy: Comp

• mposting
• sting

Connecting Students to Markets

• Fabretto develops relationships with buyers
• Encourage corporate social responsibility

and investment in education

• Connection with Mayorga Coffee

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• We are importers, roasters, wholesalers and retailers
• f sustainably grown specialty coffees.
• We have been partnering with Fabretto since 2007.
• How we begun partnering with Fabretto.

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Our role in the strategic partnership with Fabretto:

• Informing consumers that that they are ultimately responsible of how an

industry behaves and that they can change it, by choosing where they decide to spend/invest their money. As a consumer you can make a significant difference in other people’s lives and change industry standards.

• We translate the consumers’ choice to buy from us; we take it very

seriously that we are responsible for sourcing sustainably - both socially and environmentally conscious decision making. There is a close link between economic growth of local communities and maintaining environmental health of their natural resources.

• We do this by buying coffee to craft roast from cooperatives and small

agricultural producers whom are fostering growth in their local communities, empowering women and youths with education and

• nutrition. Coffee serves as a substantial tool for empowerment and

development of the producing communities.

• Creating a stable market for agricultural producers to continue their trade

with confidence and without reservations of not being able to sell their products in local markets.

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Partnering with Fabretto allows us to concentrate on what we do best: roasting, marketing, and engaging consumers. Meanwhile, Fabretto can gain funding from sales and do what they do best, creating growth in key points of developing communities.

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Our Sourcing Model, which allows us to compensate producers fairly, while still allowing Mayorga Coffee to keep competitive pricing:

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FARMER MILL ROASTER RETAILER CONSUMER

FINANCING/RISK MANAGEMENT

OPEN COMMUNICATION & SHARED VALUES BETWEEN ALL PARTICIPANTS

Creating future opportunities with Fabretto:

Coffee is just one of many tools to help underprivileged communities. We are adapting the same values, sourcing principles, and sourcing model to other agricultural products; teas, chia seeds, cacao, honey, bee pollen, X-product.

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Selling handmade Pine needle baskets, made by women in the Cusmapa community, in our retail stores for example, creates an additional marketplace to generate second incomes for these women and their

• families. Aside from the monetary benefit, young

women grow confidence in themselves, which helps them assume more prominent roles in their communities and in their personal lives.

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What next..

Creating future opportunities with Fabretto:

Continuing to grow as a company = continued growth for Fabretto and more funding of important youth development projects… Portions of our proceeds are donated to Fabretto to invest where they see best fit.

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Impact Assessment

• Measure Progress in Poverty

Index (PPI)

• Current stage: collecting

large-scale baseline information

• Data will be collected yearly

to trace changes in behavior, health, income generation, and overall community development to student economic activity

SEPTEMBER 2013 22 IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Moving Forward

• Provide access to credit
• Use student knowledge to build

community production capacity

Example: Students learn about soil sampling; apply knowledge to improve organic fertilizers

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CASE STUDIES

Coffee

• 5 de Junio Cooperative

founded June 5, 2001

• 300 producers
• 20 students and families

produce organic compost

• Partnership with

Mayorga Coffee to produce and sell School Grounds coffee

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Honey

• Buyer: Inglemann Exporter

(to Europe)

• 5 Fabretto youth producers
• Work with coffee

cooperative

• In April 2013, sale of first

90 kilos of honey

• 3 of the student

beekeepers in Cusmapa make $200/month profit

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Tabasco Chili Peppers

• Chiles de Nicaragua

S.A., a key supplier to the McIlhenny Company

• Collaboration began

June 2012

• 5 producers

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Pineapple & Dragonfruit

• Connection to Burke Agro

to produce organic pineapple and dragon fruit

• Dried fruit product sold

under Sol Simple brand in U.S.

• Example of corporate

social responsibility and a large company integrating small producers into value- added chain and export market

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Questions and Comments

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