Agros Blog

In commemoration of Street Bean’s recent one-year anniversary, Agros International would like to highlight our informal partnership with the local coffee shop. Street Bean is a social venture business – connected with New Horizons Ministries – that is using coffee to serve those in need. The effort helps street youth by providing job skills and a safe place of steady employment.

Street Bean also uses Trapichitos beans for its drip coffee. In this way, it is not only helping youth to get off the street and become self sufficient, but also supporting the rural poor in South America do the same. This Street Bean promotional video highlights the unique relationship between the two types of poverty that are being addressed.

The street youth that work at the Street Bean are not only learning valuable job skills that are altering the course of their lives, they are also learning about the incredible journey out of poverty that rural, campesino famers in Central America are on. These two journeys out of two vastly different types of poverty have a unique relationship at Street Bean. Through this collaboration, lives are being transformed here in Seattle and in Central America.