Tara Bodt’s Mission for Ecuadorian Cafe Galletti

Galletti coffee, carefully grown and processed

Tara Bodt helped launch Galletti in the states, a family-owned business and a leader in the Ecuadorian coffee industry.  Her mission started with helping women overcome their experience with inequalities.  This ranged  from taking care of farms to sorting beans, where women perform much of the labor required in coffee production, yet receive little compensation for their contribution. 

Tara Bodt of Galletti Cafe 

Using coffee as an agent for positive change, Galletti created a line of specialty coffee, produced by women to benefit women, named Café Mujeres. Café Mujeres promotes gender equality and empowers women to create a greater life for them and their families.

Café Mujeres has since inspired women to pursue owning a house, having a nursery, building a shop, or selling crafts.

Galletti allocates and matches a percentage of profits earned from Café Mujeres to self-finance the women’s entrepreneurial ventures, making independence a new reality. Through their work in supporting women coffee farmers, Galletti has helped over 320 women with plans of reaching an additional 100 women per year as they continue to grow. To help grow Cafe Galletti and their involvement in Fair Trade practices, Bodt has introduced the brand to retailers to the site along with a USA website:

www.cafegallettiusa.com

Ena Galletti from Cafe Galletti has also helped launch an initiative called Save The Cloud Forest, restoring over 240 acres of land affected by poor environmental practices, as well as created employment opportunities for the surrounding community. She says, “Due to aggressive livestock actions, the area’s environment is collapsing, resulting in difficult living conditions and limited employment opportunities.” Café Galletti set out to Save The Cloud Forest and establish a culture of environmental conscience, benefiting the ecosystem and its people.

Galletti has developed a profile for each of their coffees, based on different evaluation parameters, organoleptic characteristics, place of origin, type of roast, variety, and performance regarding the infusion and extraction method used. With the help of these profiles, Galletti provides its customers with the most desirable options, according to their liking. “Once I heard about the initiatives, I wanted to help build the brand here in the states, because I didn’t feel like there was anything similar,”  says Bodt.  For more information, please visit the links below.

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