Read all about it OU’s Café de Kuna students, Ideas 2 Business Lab and Professor Mark Simon are featured in articles in the Oakland Press, Macomb Daily and Royal Oak Tribune.
Everyone’s invited to support this project and get a chance to win a reserved parking spot on OU’s campus next Fall at Café de Kuna’s Grand Finale this Friday, March 28. Learn more at http://cafedekuna.org/events
The articles, all written by Molly Tippen, begin:
The sought after bean is one of the world’s largest exports, and consumers are willing to pay top dollar for a cup of java.
But despite the fact that most people have a cup of coffee on their desks, farmers in Wacuco Kuna, a small village in the Darién region of Panama, are struggling to capitalize on their valuable commodity.
Not only are they competing with local competition, they’re being low-balled by coffee buyers that are not paying a fair price for their coffee.
It’s a situation that a group of Oakland University undergraduates are aiming to eliminate with the inception of Café de Kuna, a program that allows them use what they’ve learned in business school to help the farmers in Wacuco Kuna. Read the full article here.
Read all about it OU’s Café de Kuna students, Ideas 2 Business Lab and Professor Mark Simon are featured in articles in the Oakland Press, Macomb Daily and Royal Oak Tribune.
Everyone’s invited to support this project and get a chance to win a reserved parking spot on OU’s campus next Fall at Café de Kuna’s Grand Finale this Friday, March 28. Learn more at http://cafedekuna.org/events