CARE gets new funding from Starbucks

Atlanta Business Chronicle

Starbucks Corp. has raised more than $500,000 for a CARE project in Ethiopia, a country with high-quality coffee growing and chronic food shortages.

Atlanta-based CARE, a nonprofit humanitarian group focused on poverty, will use the funding for a three-year program to improve economic and educational prospects for more than 6,000 people in rural Ethiopia's coffee growing regions. More than 45 percent of the country's population lives below the poverty line.

The development project between CARE and Starbucks will support 1,500 households through programs to improve agricultural practices and adult literacy. CARE's projects will train women and men in agricultural techniques that reduce crop losses, establish community-based saving and self-help groups that provide sustainable financial and social services, and fund adult functional literacy programs.

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