Getting your caffeine fix is about to get more satisfying. You can support more than 1,500 women coffee producers in poor rural communities by ordering any Café Femenino Foundation Fair Trade Certified Organic coffees through the Kaffe Magnum Opus website (www.kmocoffee.com) in March. You’ll receive 10 percent off your order, but the biggest gain goes to the women who are a part of the Café Femenino Coffee Project, a social program that helps female coffee producers in Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru achieve empowerment, build social and support networks, and earn incomes through the production and sale of the Café Femenino Coffee.

Here’s why it’s important to support this cause. Although the production of organic and Fair Trade coffees has helped make much progress to improve lives in many rural coffee-growing communities, the marginalization of women in these areas has only grown worse and abuse is rampant. Of women coffee producers working with Cafe Femenino, approximately 30 percent are single heads of household, either abandoned by their spouses or widowed. But there’s hope. By supporting this cause, you can improve the quality of life in the community and build a sustainable economic system for these women. Kaffe Magnum Opus, the importer of coffee from the Cafe Femenino project, agreed to sell the coffee as Fair Trade, with that money going to the co-op. An additional two cents per pound will also be paid for the coffee, with these additional funds providing extra income that goes directly to the women producers to decide how to use.

Check out how influential the project is in the documentary “Strong Coffee: The Story of Café Femenino” (www.strongcoffeefilm.com ). It chronicles how hundreds of Peruvian female coffee producers working with the support of PROASSA, a small coffee export company, and Organic Products Trading Company, a U.S. coffee importer, created an amazing and revolutionary new model of social business.—Denise Shoukas