Cup for Education (Brooklyn, NY) has a mission to help poor rural coffee communities in Central and Latin America build schools within their communities, and assist in providing them with teachers and the basic educational tools.

After a trip to Nicaragua in 2003, Karen Gordon founded Cup for Education (CFE) after seeing firsthand that so many coffee communities either did not have schools or did not have adequate materials and teachers for their children. Some kids had to travel hours to distant towns to attend schools, and libraries, science equipment, chalkboards, notebooks and other school supplies were often not available.

Some of the projects for Cup for Education include:

* Beans for Books - Donated funds for library and text books for communities devastated by Hurricane Stan in Guatemala.

* MEDICO Project 2007 - Sponsored the cost of shipping supplies, educational materials and schools supplies for the MEDICO organization’s volunteer medical and educational assistance project in Honduras. Six small remote schools received notebook paper, construction paper, new pencils, colored markers, crayons, folders, binders, glue, flash cards in Spanish, books in Spanish, maps, games and other classroom supplies.

* Project Safe Passage - CFE donated a library table and chairs for the school in Guatemala.

More information on their programs and donation opportunities are available on their website.