Donate old shoes to Africa BCH vows to help coffee farmers

Zeng Baiyuan, director of the BCH coffee shop, launched the campaign to donate old shoes to coffee farmers a month ago. After learning about the situation of African coffee farmers, many kind-hearted people sent their old shoes from their homes to coffee shops. Zeng Baiyuan said that so far, more than 500 pairs of old shoes have been collected. He hopes to eventually raise a container, that is, 48,000 pairs, and he will drive a van to villages in Africa to distribute them. It is his greatest wish that African farmers who have no shoes to wear no longer have to harvest coffee barefoot.

Before opening a coffee shop on Ching Cheng Road in Taichung, Tseng Po-yuan worked as an English tutor for a period of time and went to the countryside to teach English. During that time, he experienced that "apart from being able to support himself, one should also create more benefits." Now Zeng Boyuan, who is in the coffee trade, remembers his wish to create more benefits in addition to selling coffee. when he knew that most coffee farmers in Africa had no shoes, but in order to harvest coffee beans, they had to walk barefoot through stone-paved country roads, and they often got hurt and bled when walking barefoot on the stone road, so he came up with a good way to help African farmers by donating shoes to them.

Zeng Boyuan, the manager of BCH coffee shop, wants to collect mainly cloth shoes. As long as he can still wear undamaged cloth shoes, he will collect 48, 000 pairs of shoes and send them to the villages of coffee farmers in Africa. Zeng Boyuan, the manager of BCH coffee shop, wants to collect mainly cloth shoes. As long as he can still wear undamaged cloth shoes, he will collect 48, 000 pairs of shoes and send them to the villages of coffee farmers in Africa. (reporter Deng Meiling / Photography)

But Zeng Baiyuan did not go to raise money to buy shoes for them. Although African people were poor, they did not want to be donated for nothing, so he thought of giving away old shoes. He knew that many people in Taiwan had a lot of old shoes that they did not wear very often. If you send these old shoes to Africa, you can not only help the farmers there, but also connect with his coffee beans, that is, they hope that Taiwanese people who donate old shoes can come to his coffee shop. He wants to invite these loving people to drink coffee and tell the story of African coffee, so that people who donate shoes can understand how coffee farmers grow coffee and harvest coffee for a better life, that is, there are many poignant stories behind a cup of coffee.

Zeng Baiyuan said that the old shoes he wants to donate are mainly cloth shoes, as long as he can still wear undamaged cloth shoes. After he has collected 48,000 pairs of shoes, he will be able to fill a whole container, and he will pay the freight, storage and finishing costs. "it is estimated that the shoes in this container will cost about 1 million yuan to be sent to the feet of African farmers," he said. " But he thought it was worth it. When the coffee farmers there put on shoes to grow coffee and pick coffee, so that the income of coffee beans is better, he can also buy better coffee beans to share with friends. Perhaps, the story behind a cup of coffee will no longer be poignant.