Can a cup of coffee build a village? It can, if it's the right cup of coffee.

Every bag of San Francisco Bay Coffee sold helps 'Brew the Right Thing.'
San Francisco Bay Coffee Co. Builds Homes/Foundation For Future For Coffee Farm Families/Children In Latin America

SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Esmeralda Perez finally has a new home. Not much, really, by American standards. But she's not complaining. After all, she's now got "a room with a view." It doesn't flood every year. And when she cooks, the smoke actually goes out the kitchen. And, as Ms. Perez will tell you, the faucets and roof don't leak. Oh yes, there's clean, drinking water now -- every day. And her house isn't drafty -- unlike the wood and tin structure she called home for years at El Quetzal coffee farm in Nicaragua.

Ms. Perez picks beans -- along with the rest of her family at El Quetzal, one of the coffee farms from which San Francisco Bay Coffee Company buys its beans and one of the many places throughout Latin America where the company is committed to raising the standard of living -- one house, one school, one medical clinic at a time -- for some of the world's poorest people.

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