Corporate social responsibility
In our effort to contribute to sustainable development alternatives in rural areas, Corporación Aldea Global advises and supports companies interested in developing their CSR portfolio. Activities under way include, among others, support to companies which aim at improving their environmental culture and values and those of their clients.
One of these cases is Bancolombia for whom Aldea Global developed environmental campaigns with activities like planting and adopting trees in Manizales, Pereira and Dosquebradas.
Forest Bonds
These activities support poor rural communities where, following their suggestions and direction, by stabilizing fragile soils, planting forest and ornamental trees and shrubs, and by protecting springs.
These activities create income opportunities in poor rural communities, employing local workforce and buying local materials.
BolÃvar Davivienda Foundation’s aid to small-scale women entrepreneurs in rural coffee parcels
The “Asociación Mujer y Cafe” is an organization run by a big group of 20 women from different districts of the Municipality of Manizales, located in the Andean mountains of Colombia. This women entrepreneurs participate with their work and their land in the whole chain of small-scale coffee production. The complete product line has all the features of an export-type coffee production with high quality hand-farmed beans.
The BOLIVAR-DAVIVIENDA Foundation currently supports the “Asociación Mujer y Cafe” through the “Corporación Aldea Global”. Aldea Global has the know-how to guide and strengthen the “Asociación Mujer y Cafe” production process by helping farmers produce better quality and implement sustainable practices. In this way, we offer education and technical assistance to the farmers so that the can improve their social business method and can establish new commercial links.
Mother coffee – Coffee harvesting
The organization was founded back in 2008 during the Participatory Council of Coffee Women of the city of Manizales. In 2013, the organization is registered as an Association and since 2015, they have been engaged in the project “Oportunidades Rurales” by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Colombian International Corporation (CCI). The main objective of this project was to acquire the machinery and equipment necessary to create an industrialized coffee process for the Association.
Thanks to the execution of this project, it was possible to purchase the coffee roaster and the sealing machine, as well as design the brand image, deploy a marketing study, register the brand, create bar codes and process all the documentation related to the official creation of the company including the Colombia’s National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute’s registration.
Since then, the “Asociación Mujer y Cafe” has launch and commercialize three coffee lines:
• Mother Coffee Export-type  • Mother Coffee Excelso  • Mother Coffee Classic
Mother Coffee Excelso and Classic
With the support of the Bolivar Davivienda Foundation, in addition to strengthening the business partnership, an agreement is being negotiated with the National University of Colombia as a commercial partner that can maintain the business with fixed purchases that allows them to project their company in the short and medium term in the national and international market as support to the improvement of the quality of life of their families and the generation of rural employment.
Mother Coffee family
