Heartfelt greetings 2/23
Heartfelt greetings
Good day, heart.
“Nothing untrue can ever endure; nothing true can ever be destroyed.”
Our vision is to create high-quality ceremonial cocoa from unique cocoas in direct and benevolent cooperation with local cocoa farmers.
Furthermore, we would like to contribute with our work to the development of all our consciousness on our beloved Earth.
Project Macuro, Venezuela - Review
Regarding our project, we would like to tell you that we have been able to experience many wonderful developments and experiences together with the 40 cocoa farming families and villagers.
Since the first visit, which lasted almost 3 months from Dec 22 to Feb 23, we have shared our vision with the farmers and developed a common vision.
Together we will create a wonderful ceremonial cacao and manifest an economically and ecologically benevolent situation for all involved.
We pay the farmers $1 more per kilogram than the current highest local market price (of which the farmer and the cooperative each receive $0.50), and after successful sales here, an additional 10% of the revenue goes back to the cooperative.
"From Bean to ceremony and from Venezuela to your heart."
At the beginning of the year, Maya Munay financed training courses for the farmers, in which they learned for the first time knowledge and skills related to optimal and sustainable care, as well as the high-quality processing of the cocoa beans, and also successfully carried out a practical fermentation process for the first time with our support.
With a good fermented bean, farmers can get at least double the price at the market!
We were also able to provide wooden fermentation boxes and tools.
All of this has already been partially financed by the tree sponsorships you've taken on. Thank you so much!
So far, in addition to our donations, €2,237 has already been sent to Venezuela through your donations alone.
THANK YOU SO MUCH from everyone involved.
Macuro Project, Venezuela - Outlook
We are currently supporting the farmers in establishing a cooperative. All the requirements have now been met, and only the final stamps are missing. This means the farmers can organize together and achieve a uniform and higher price for their work and their cacao.
Wow- how WONDERFUL!
A value-added and training center for the cooperative and the entire village will be built on the outskirts of Macuro. We have been granted €4,000 to purchase a 3-hectare plot of land. This will create jobs and significant added value in both the construction and management of the center.
The tasks of creating the value creation center include:
Construction of the drying and fermentation station, construction of a storage facility, construction of a cacao laboratory with a self-sufficient energy supply for further processing of the cacao, and a communal cabana where training sessions will take place and where villagers can meet. Small eco-huts for visitors to the project will also be built.
Part of the vision is also that a cacao ceremony is celebrated together with the village every full moon.
Further information about the project will follow.
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Advance notice and hug
In the next newsletter, we will invite you to join us on our next trip to the project in Venezuela and to continue to weave the vision with us, to experience it and to actively get involved on site and to learn about the cacao itself and its origins.
You can find out how you can support the project, for example by sponsoring a tree, here: Instagram
We wish all of us continued healing and optimal experiences with and through the energy of cacao.
May you accept and give away all the gifts that are yours in this life.
In South America they say: “Nada es el tuyo hasta que lo regalas”
Which means
“Nothing is yours until you share it (or “give”).”
We embrace each other - from heart to heart
Have a good journey.
Bending and twisting
Anni & David
