The Coffee Lands Trust (Coffee Lands landmine victims' Trust) is a project that provides direct support to the surviving victims of the conflict and to work in coffee communities around the world. The Trust is linked to the coffee industry and the consumer of coffee for the victims of the conflict and will use all resources for restoration and economic development opportunities. It is a project of the nonprofit organization Polus Center for Social and Economic Development, Inc. in Clinton, Massachusetts, United States.Dean Cycon, owner of Dean's Beans, a coffee roaster in Central Massachusetts and Michael Lundquist, director of the foundation Polus Center for Social and Economic development, Inc. for many years in developing countries work together to promote social and economic justice for the most vulnerable groups in the world. Dean's Beans and the Polus Center in grassroots development projects that economic opportunities for "Death Train" victims in Tapachula, Mexico, moving people accompanied with disabilities to small businesses in Nicaragua partnership, and cooperate to the basic food needs to address and helping the social stigmatization of people with leprosy in Ethiopia to combat.
In 2005, Dean's knowledge and experience, with coffee farmers and their struggles and Michael's work with landmine victims them to the connection between the landmines, unexploded ordnance or explosives, and coffee. After careful consideration of the data, found that they were landmines and unexploded ordnance in six of the ten top coffee producing countries in the world and that these deadly devices not only kill and maim coffee farmers and their families, but have a significant negative effect on coffee production and the quality of the coffee.
Although the Ottawa Convention, the world attention focused on the need to address the problem of landmines to tackle the most money and resources to focus on demining and education about the danger of mines, very little support to direct aid to the victims.
The United States and other donor countries have made significant progress in the field of landmine removal and mine risk education, but pleas for immediate aid to the victims were minimal and are expected to continue. Due to the lack of resources for the rehabilitation of landmine victims against many facing a very uncertain future.
Although the Ottawa Convention, the world attention focused on the need to address the problem of landmines to tackle the most money and resources to focus on demining and education about the danger of mines, very little support to direct aid to the victims.
The United States and other donor countries have made significant progress in the field of landmine removal and mine risk education, but pleas for immediate aid to the victims were minimal and are expected to continue. Due to the lack of resources for the rehabilitation of landmine victims against many facing a very uncertain future.
