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Marivic and Joe Randy Dubria live in a farming village in Bansalan, Davao del Sur, at the foothills of Mt. Apo, the highest mountain in the Philippines.
The couple worked hard but they struggled to make ends meet. Vegetable farming brought little income while Marivic’s take home pay as a day care teacher was only P1,500 a month a decade ago.Marivic said their neighbors looked down on them for relying on government aid allocated for the poorest in their community.
Their life started to change with the intervention of government and non-profit groups that aimed to reintroduce plant life in their area after over-logging left the hills denuded.
Marivic quit her job so she can attend training programs for farmers while Joe Randy focused on tending to their land.It was during one of those trainings that Marivic met Joji Pantoja, founder of the social enterprise Coffee for Peace.To show the potential of coffee farming, Joji would buy the coffee cherries or the fruits of the coffee plant from the farmers.
“They brought us farmers to Davao City so we can learn how they process coffee beans. I was curious about coffee quality so when I got home, I tried to replicate it,” she said.
Through trainings done by Coffee for Peace, Marivic and other farmers learned how to properly care for their coffee plants, how to sort coffee cherries and how to better process them to yield world-class coffee beans.
From producing coffee fruits that sold only for P80 to P90 per kilo, Marivic and her husband were able to sell coffee beans at more than P250 per kilo.
“We are also taught how to do costing. We do not know much about financial literacy, how to handle our money so we were also taught that,” Marivic said of the trainings.
This helped them break free from the clutches of local traders who controlled the selling prices of both farming inputs and harvests. They were also able to rise above the poverty threshold and have enough money to put their kids through school.
Coffee for Peace
Joji and her husband, Mennonite minister Luis Daniel “Lakan” Pantoja returned to the Philippines in 2006 after two decades of mission work in Canada. They founded Coffee for Peace as a social enterprise that not only showcased the quality of Filipino coffee but also promoted peace in the conflict-ridden region.
While Rev. Dann led their non-profit organization, PeaceBuilders
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