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Article: 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.'.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 12, 2004
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SAN LEANDRO, Calif.,/SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, 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 ...