{"id":5784,"date":"2020-05-27T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T12:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uks-dev-app-edfmanwordpress-001.azurewebsites.net\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T09:32:37","slug":"volcafe-costa-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edfmansugar.co.uk\/volcafe-costa-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcafe\u2019s successful partnership with the Costa Foundation will open its 15th school this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lesson at the C\u01b0dli M’n\u00f4ng Nursery School, built in 2011<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Dakman, Volcafe\u2019s brand name in Vietnam, was established in Daklak Province in Vietnam\u2019s central highlands in 1995, when ED&F Man Coffee (before the days of Volcafe) entered into a joint venture with Dalimexco – later replaced by Simexco – and was the first overseas investor into Vietnam\u2019s coffee industry.<\/p>\n

Now Dakman employs 100 people and works closely with farmers on certifications, projects and securing the best beans for its domestic and overseas customers. Apart from becoming the world\u2019s first 4C unit (compliant with the 4C Code of Conduct for sustainable coffee), Dakman established the first Rainforest Alliance certified supply chain in Vietnam and is currently the largest Fairtrade robusta exporter. Annual volume is 40-50,000 metric tons.<\/p>\n

Daklak is a mountainous province with more than 200,000 hectares of coffee land, an average altitude of 400-800m, an average temperature of 23o<\/sup>C and rainfall of 1500-2000mm. Its population of two million people includes the indigenous ethnic communities of the Ede, Tay and Nung peoples, who do not speak Vietnamese. Government legislation introduced in 2010 required that children had to speak Vietnamese in order to attend formal school,\u00a0however government budget and local resources for building nursery schools is limited, and the Daklak children were missing out.<\/p>\n

Since 2010, and with funding from the Costa Foundation, the coffee chain\u2019s charity\u00a0that works to improve education in the world\u2019s poorest coffee-farming communities, Dakman and Costa Foundation have developed the construction programme of nursery schools to fill this gap. You can read about some of the schools here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.costafoundation.com\/projects\/#country-Vietnam<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dakman team have a project management role, identifying sites, appointing architects and construction companies, obtaining planning permission, overseeing the construction and equipping the schools with bathrooms, kitchens, desks, chairs, boards, TV, teaching accessories, toys, and drinking water before handing them over to the local authorities.<\/p>\n

After ten years, the partnership has built 14 nursery schools with 111 classrooms for 221 teachers and 3,640 kids. The children attending now have the simple pleasure of going to a safe and cheerful environment and overcoming the language barrier stopping them securing a better education. This brings great benefit to their parents and improves the economic and social outlook for coffee communities here.<\/p>\n

Dakman\u2019s input has gone well beyond the schools construction programme and it has helped coffee production in this area with the distribution of covers for water wells, first-aid kits, medical boxes, containers for pesticide storage, seeds, dustbins, building rural roads and even small houses for homeless and disabled people as well as training on climate change awareness.<\/p>\n

In 2020 Dakman is building the 15th<\/sup>\u00a0school \u2013 Hoa Mai in Dak R\u2019Lap district – which will have eight classrooms for 280 students. Construction started just as the Covid-19 caused a national lockdown in early April, however the builders are still scheduled to complete on time at the end of October 2020.<\/p>\n

Dakman GM Jonathan Wyndham Clark, says \u201cNow in these remote areas, you can feel warmth and enjoy the bright smiles of farmers and their kids in their new world. Projects like this help improve coffee production and profitability. Of course there\u2019s an altruistic motivation, but we also know that\u00a0helping the community at its very widest helps secure the source of this valuable coffee for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Vietnam GM Jonathan Clark at the opening of Anh Duong Nursery School in 2011, sitting behind Piers Blake, Director of the Costa Foundation. In 2005 Piers was working in marketing\u00a0for Whitbread when his life changed. He was travelling on the London bus in Tavistock Square that was blown up in the 7\/7 terrorist attack. After surviving, his outlook changed, he wanted to do something good in the world, and help people. He started the Costa Foundation in 2007, and will see it through to its 100th school next year (2021) before retiring.<\/p>\n

Below, the Cu Pang Nursery School \u2013 students and building \u2013 opened in 2014 \u2013 thanks to Costa and Dakman.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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