In late June, Camino Global and Camino Foundation sent Rachel Crouse to capture the story of a worker at our HOPE Coffee store in Siguatepeque, Honduras. Rachel is an intern with Camino Global/Camino Foundation and is studying at John Brown University. We love placing interns and longer term marketplace missionaries in areas where they can use their skills and passions to create and enhance self-sustaining businesses. What Rachel came back with is a beautiful story of Merly: barista and daughter of a Honduran coffee farmer.

Merly is a perfect example of what the Foundation calls indirect impact. This type of impact occurs when our businesses use their process or product to provide life-changing transformations. In this case, that indirect impact is employment for Merly and skills training.

Not only does this short video convey indirect impact, you also get to experience direct impact - using business profits to transform lives and communities through the local church. As HOPE Coffee Honduras grows, so does this impact. What is exciting about Merly's video is that, as a sister in Christ from Honduras, she is engaged in and excited about the impact in her own city.

We love the fact that our businesses are engaged in impacting their community by involving the community. This model works well as we create self-sustaining entities that truly plan to impact the community. With any business, we want to love God and love people. We recognize that there is nothing greater than a person trusting Christ as their Savior and then growing in that relationship. That is what drives us to do what we do.

If you want to learn more about how you can build a business so that another "Merly" has this opportunity contact us here.

You can also partner with us financially. Our goal for the next 5 years is to create 30 more businesses like HOPE Coffee Honduras so that more people like Merly have the opportunity to develop their skills and engage in the impact.

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