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I am working with a Community Based Organisation (CBO) to support rural coffee farmers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in all the coffee production stages from processing of wet beans, to dry and green beans and roasting and packaging to export and supplying the domestic markets.

The problems in PNG are enormous but we take this as stepping stones to assist the local coffee farmers as we can. The first two stages are; 1) to assisting the farmers to build a mini storage/warehouse for storing coffee and 2) converting a 20 foot dry container into an outlet for selling coffee.

The CBO is registered as Kii Nga Association Inc that looks at facilitating trade within the domestic market for roasted coffee and green bean exports abroad. The farmers through this group are also looking at importing packaging materials, a coffee roaster and other materials that will assist them in selling their coffee.

The group has exhausted their funds in setting up their storage and outlet for selling their product but need more grants if there is.

Jar Thuraya is heritage preservation enterprise that offers different services related to heritage preservation, sustainable development and women empowerment.
It covers different sectors such as Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Education, Rural Activities and Design. Each of these categories is widely developed and expands into services of different kinds.
1. Empower women by re-selling their local home made products (mouneh) through online channels and create for them personal brands by adding their names and villages on the labels of the products. In addition to that, publish their own profiles online, and allow them the opportunity to be known and recognized.
● Give the women a feeling of financial independence and boost their confidence by giving them the needed exposure they strive for in order to reach the market faster.
● Export local products internationally and allow Lebanese expats the possibility to receive a taste of home.
2. Boost rural areas by adding the names of the villages where the products come from on the labels and promote them through various forms of online interactions. In addition to that, publish all the info related to the villages and the various services they offer and create jobs for the local talents.
● Collaborate with Lebanese Wanderers, whose mission is to work on different rural tourism implementations around the Lebanese villages and engage the youth in physical activities along the hiking trails.
3. Organize and host events and cooking activities with the star women around guest houses to teach visitors recipes, and engage them in culinary activities.
● In order to preserve the cycle of traditions, this form of intangible heritage preservation will be the tool to revive the techniques that many of the youth lack.
4. Wecreatenetworkingopportunitiesfortheyouthtoreconnectwith others from the same village. Any Lebanese around the world will be given the opportunity to virtually meet and connect with people that come from the same village as him in order to tighten the relationship between people who have been deprived a soul connection to their lands.
● Through this initiative, people from around the world will be able to learn more the Lebanese villages and connect with long lost family, friends, or natives of the same village.
5. We support local talents by posting about their stories and their merchandise, in addition to that, we encourage plastic free and eco-products so we aim to collaborate with other sustainable institutions and partner with them on projects.
● We aim to build a chain of partners that share our mission and collaborate on projects in which we have the same vision and social impact.