Coffee for a Cause!
Java Relief raises money for children at Risk worldwide. We provide care by providing food, shelter, education and hope for a brighter future. We are a volunteer organization that sends 100% of our profits to those in need.
Wake Up Do Good!
We Sell Amazing Fresh Roasted Coffee to Give Hope to Children At Risk
Java Relief is a special kind of coffee retailer. We sell high quality coffee that's fresh roasted, on demand.
What makes us unique is that we are a volunteer company and 100% of our profits go directly to children at risk.
We've searched the world over to find coffee that tastes great and helps fund Fair Trade small coffee businesses. All of our coffee is 100% organic. This coffee not only tastes amazing, it will warm your heart!
Take a few minutes to watch this video from Haiti. Cite Soleil is a slum considered by the United Nations as one of the most impoverished and dangerous areas in the Western Hemisphere. Sadly, these children have one of the highest disease and death rates in the world. They are beautiful people that need hope. You will see how Java Relief Coffee gives hope to these children at risk. Simply purchase coffee to help children in need around the world. Together, we can help these children!
Together, we can give hope to these children. These aren't just pictures. They're real children we have met. Around the world, children are living in extreme neglect and poverty. Our main focus is to help in the slum of Cite´Soliel, refugee children in Colombia, and sex trafficking victims here in the USA. They need food, education, medical care, shelter, and the knowledge that someone cares. Our hearts are broken over the needs of these children. We feel that it is our calling to help them.
A Simple Solution. Drink Java Relief Coffee!
Java Relief is continuing to search for organic, fair trade, high altitude Arabica, specialty grade coffee beans. See what we discovered in the mountains of Haiti.
A new Coffee shop in Port au Prince Haiti! Amber Hasson and Leanne Leary are both young missionaries in Port Au Prince. Amber has Rev Home, where 26 children live who needed a different, healthy living situation. In the next five years,17 of these kids will "age out" so Amber and Leanne are creating Rev Cafe! An American-style coffee shop located in Port Au Prince where the 17 kids will work, learn job skills and earn money for college. Rev Cafe asked Java Relief to partner with them in sourcing coffee and of course, for Steve's expertise in packaging. Java Relief will be donating all Haiti coffee sales to help this initiative. Now we have retail locations in Waconia and Port Au Prince!
Together, we can make an impact!
The Refuge House
A safe place of refuge from gang wars and violence! Many of you donated to the Refuge, and we want to say, "Thank You" again! Java Relief has generous supporters! Together we raised over $30,000! The Refuge is a shelter for the children who are in the Luken Foundation program in Cite Soleil. This Refuge is in a safe location outside the city and they'll be safe, fed, and educated when gang wars or trouble breaks out where they live. Progress is happening, the food storage building is done, beds are being made and other renovations are underway. Luken's team is hoping to be done by Christmas to have a special celebration then.
Haiti is in a food crisis.
Haiti is in desperate need of help. Because of your donations and purchases of Java Relief coffee and products, Java Relief and the Luken Foundation was able to provide 400 bags of groceries to people in the slum - with more coming.
Each of us, working together have been able to provide hope in what seems to be a hopeless situation. As Luken said the day we met him, "One person can do something."
Covid 19 Response
Because of our great supporters, the Java Relief Foundation was able to buy food, hand sanitizers, soap, toilet paper, masks, washing buckets for over a 100 families in the slum of Cité Soleil.
From Luken — “It was hard to get into the slum because of the political war between the armed gangs of the area, but by the grace of God we made it. An empty street, no police. You see fear, misery, hopelessness. No water, no electricity, no sanitation. It’s horrible and unacceptable that the people of Cité Soleil live like this. People are starving, their children are suffering from malnutrition. None of the authorities that represent the town care about their living conditions. Cité Soleil remains the most ignored slum of all the slums of Haiti.”
Backpacks full of happiness!
Wow, what a great trip to Cité Soleil, Haiti! We were able to visit the Luken Foundation campus as the children wrapped up their 3-month long “summer camp”.
They were dressed in their finest as they enjoyed a celebration to say goodbye to summer and hello to the new school season. We danced, had times of sharing, ate a meal together and gave backpacks full of school supplies to the 76 children that the Luken Foundation is now sending to school.
Thanks to one special couple who rounded up all of the backpacks and school supplies! What a blessing!
Let there be light!
A generous generator surprise arrived in Cité Soleil! Thanks to a beautiful Texas couple who have always supported Java Relief. The Luken Foundation building that keeps the children safe in the slum, until now had no electricity. On our last trip there, we were able to wire the building with lights. Now these children can study with their tudors after is gets dark.
A new bounce in their step
This year Java Relief participated in the Royal Family Kids Camp by giving the children an upgrade to their carnival day! We were able to rent Bouncy Houses and Slides to enhance their camp experience.
RFKC is a week-long camp for Minnesota children in the foster care program. The camp gives the opportunity to many kids to relax, have fun, build self-esteem, and see what family life could and should be. Each child receives one-on-one attention and encouragement from an adult volunteer “buddy camper”. For most of these children, it’s the best week of the year – a special time when they can focus on being a kid.
Look what washed up in Port-au-Prince!
We visited the Faith in Action Orphanage in Port-au-Prince Haiti and were stunned at how much laundry they do by hand! With 26 children and a few adults, that is a ton of laundry!
So, thanks to you, we bought them a washing machine!
The biggest blessing was that the Jehovah Rapha House - another orphanage we support, also needed a washer. The money we thought would buy one washer ended up to be anough to buy two!
Feeling double blessed!
Clean Cooking in Cité Soleil.
Can you imagine cooking for over 220 children on charcoal? Not only does it take a lot of time, but it isn't heathy to be breathing in smoke day after day.
Java Relief was thrilled to provide a brand new $1,200 propane stove system for the Luken Foundation. This will make life a whole lot easier for the women of Cité Soliel who tirelessly cook for these hungry children. Thank you Java Relief coffee supporters for making this happen!
Chill Out Pastor Cenor!
Pastor Cenor runs an orphanage with 24 orphans in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He showed us his broken-down freezer and refrigerator. He told us, "We have no way to keep anything cold for the children. No milk, no meat. Plus our washing machine is broken."
Great news! Together with the financial help of the Waconia-West Carver Rotary Club, and profits from coffee sales, we were able to purchase a brand new freezer, refrigerator and washing machine for them. What a blessing!
It's Table-rrific!
Thanks to just one generous coffee drinker, 50 tables were built and painted for the Luken Foundation school/homework area in Cite Soliel! There are 75 children now going to school from this slum. These tables are so great for these kiddos!
Ho, Ho, Hope!
Christmas is always a Joy-filled time at the Luken Foundation building in Cite Soleil Haiti. More than 400 children plus adults participated in the Christmas party this year.
Thank you Java Relief supporters who helped make this happen. We were able to fund a large portion of this event with funds that came in from coffee sales.
Here is a note from Luken: “It was extraordinary night at our building center, the children and the parents were fantastic. I could see the joy and the glory of God on their faces. There were a lot of screams and jumping up and down. God is great and wonderful, he changes times and circumstances.“
Fueling Their Future
Java Relief is providing breakfast for 50 struggling teens for the month of December.
Java Relief met with the team at Waconia Learning Center where 40-55 teens may struggle with depression, anxiety, drug abuse, poor living conditions, probation, pregnancy, foster care, things that can make it difficult to attend high school. We think they are heros, because they have to work harder and overcome more to get to school everyday and get that diploma. They are fighting for a real chance at life!
Read more in our Stories Section
Abandoned, Evicted, Rejected. Blessed!
As Haitians continued to abandon disabled children at the hospital, Pastor Dare's wife knew she needed to do something so she started bringing the children home and eventually quit nursing to care for them. Today the Dares are caring for 29 disabled children.
Update: Because of you, the campaign to raise money for a home in Haiti for special needs orphans, has been a huge success! Thanks to you, Java Relief sent $4000 to Don Shire Ministries which runs Jehovah Rapha House! We are amazed how many of you were moved by their story and wanted to help, and we are thankful. Read more in our Stories Section
Taina's surgery was a success!
She is so beautiful! Thank you Java Relief customers and donors!
With all of your help, Java Relief was able to send $2,500 to Don Shire Ministries to help with the cost of Taina’s surgery. She is from the poorest slum in the Western Hemisphere.
This surgery has changed her life and giving her hope for the future.
God bless you!
Marksony got a new set of wheels!
Thank you Java Relief customers and donors!
Can you imagine trying to survive and have hope in a place that is considered the most impoverished and dangerous slum in the western hemisphere? Now try it with a life confined to a wheel chair. That's how Marksony lives his life in Cite Soleil, Haiti.
We are blessed and thankful that we were able to brighten Marksony's day with a gift of a shiny new red wheelchair.
We couldn't have done this without you!
This kind of Press is almost as good as our Cold Press!
Did you see our article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper? We were really excited to have this opportunity to share!
Story behind the picture: Our dental team was working at a church in Port Au Prince. Brandy walked around the side of the building and noticed this little boy, Givens, playing by himself. She started playing ball with him and they ended up having a great time with lots of giggles. At one point Steve put little Givens on his shoulders. It was at that point, Givens decided he needed to go potty...Steve got a little wet! This little boy left a footprint on our hearts. We will never forget him!
In the beginning God created coffee.
Radio Show — Hearing from God and Acting on it - Brandy & Steve Siewert
The story of the creation of Java Relief and how Brandy and Steve prayed and listened for God’s direction and followed through with His plan in thier lives.
HIM4Her Radio: Women's HOT Topics is a nationwide radio program hosted by Shug Bury that exists to free women in the struggle of today's tough topics. No conversation is off-limits! Shug and her guests get real and tell it like it is, while equipping women with truth to see their life through the lens of Christ.
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