At RICE we drink a lot of coffee just too keep going. I hope you do too because in January we will market a high quality brand of coffee under the new Beyond Borders name.

The name Beyond Borders comes from looking beyond our own personal borders stretching ourselves as well as going internationally to help those in need.

The company will incorporate in Oahu Hawaii (coffee connections and a strong base). It will support and guide the RICE efforts to grow, roast and sell coffee that in our project areas around the world.

The concept is one in which the proceeds of the sales go back into relief projects for things like building orphanages, water purification systems and medical clinics. In the long term we will develop and train small business enterprise in order to give back higher wages and ownership to those in the field to those working so hard.
Our first venture will be available through direct sales of 8 oz bags on our website. The coffee beans we will sale initially come from the Waialua Farms of the North Shore Oahu. They are a high-grade Arabica Guatemala Typica from an original Kona plant….what all that means is it is a good coffee.
We will produce a medium and a dark roast so you can decide what is best for you. Visit our website in Mid January and give our beans a try. Tell all your caffeinated friends….lets go Beyond Borders!!!

Coffee Relief

Background

Coffee is product which can be produced with a basic set of skills, tools, the right science, a relatively low initial investment in selected environments and locations around the world.
Demand for coffee in the US and abroad is at an all time high with growth expected to continue.
Many countries in West Africa and Asia needing aid have these environments and basic infrastructure.
Many of these same countries have produced coffee at some point in their history.
West Africa nations have many needs including child protection, hunger, medical service, and education.
Long term success in areas of post war reconstruction (Sierra Leone, Benin, Cote de Ivoire etc) require long term solutions, assistance in agriculture and small business enterprise as alternatives to poverty and war.
These efforts require funding. Consistent funding requires creativity, and long term methods.
RICE desires to protect children, provide aid and medical services and offer education opportunities.
RICE also desires to use agriculture and small business enterprise to reduce the dependency on foreign aid.
Coscina Brothers Coffee of Honolulu is a grower, roaster and distributor/marketer of fine coffees and coffee related products.
Coscina Brothers has the abilities, technologies and resources to grow and distribute products around the world.
Coscina Brothers Coffee desires to help impoverished communities by providing services and technologies.
RICE and Coscina Brothers Coffee agree to develop the production marketing and sale of coffee jointly with reinvestment of its proceeds in order to benefit these same communities.