Coffee with compassion: Source Aid trades beans for better lives

By Susan Fuller
STAFF WRITER

Tin shacks with leaky roofs and dirt floors. Windowless houses, sooty inside from cooking over wood fires. People with dirty clothes and hands, most without shoes. Kids with coughs, runny noses and chronic lung problems, picking coffee instead of going to school. Rice and beans and dirty water, no milk. No doctor and no money to pay for one.

Those impressions instantly slapped Pete Rogers across the face on his first coffee-buying trip to Guatemala in 1986.

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