We are so encouraged when Joji received another citation from the ASEAN Business Awards 2017:
ASEAN BUSINESS AWARDS 2017
NATIONAL WINNER, PHILIPPINES
Inclusive Business Category
Coffee for Peace is a social enterprise in the areas of Mt. Apo, Bukidnon, and the Cordillera Administrative Region which envisions Peace Communities practicing relational harmony and enjoying quality life by engaging in a sustainable coffee value chain. It incessantly seeks various ways to economically allow marginalized communities in Mindanao and the Philippines become sustainable. This is not only an approach to sustaining peace efforts but also to give a better alternative to armed struggle and other destructive environmental practices just to bring food on the table.
We dedicate this award to all the farmers in the Philippines.
We will continue to pray for your liberation from all kinds of oppression.
We will continue to listen, to serve and to work, with your guidance, towards the advancement of justice for the peace of all the families toiling the land.
We honor our Peace and Reconciliation (PAR) field training facilitators — Clay & June Rojo, Twinkle ‘Tala’ Alngag Bautista, Byron ‘Bee’ Pantoja, Jobee ‘Sihaya’ Basas, Aiza ‘Wanay’ Baluyan — with this award. We express our gratitude for the administrative work of Tyron Ortiz and Chacha Denila Homez.
Coffee for Peace is also a finalist all over Southeast Asia in the ‘Inclusive Business’ category.
