Radford Coffee Company - Journeys Through the New River Valley
Channel: Blue Ridge Streaming from WBRA-TV - Roanoke VA
Date: 2021-10-14

Radford Coffee Company helps provide for the education of roughly 1600 students on the remote and beautiful Coconut River in Nicaragua.

Established in 2015, Radford Coffee Company was created to
impact lives locally and internationally.  RCC donates money and time to our school project in Nicaragua (Project Ezra)  as well as giving locally in Radford, VA.  Every purchase educates!  RCC is a faith based organization that believes in giving back.

What is Project Ezra?
Project Ezra provides education from kindergarten through 12th grade with 54 teachers. These schools are located in areas that have no electricity, running water, or roads. Run by locals, we and our partners help provide the financial support they need on the Coconut River (Rio Coco) in Nicaragua.
“Project Ezra” was initiated in 1986 as a response to a desperate refugee situation.
In the early 1980’s over 60,000 indigenous Nicaraguan people were sent fleeing to the Coconut River when a war broke out between the Nicaraguan Sandinista government and the local indigenous population. The refugees settled along the river in an effort to escape the conflict. This area is one of the most remote corners of the Western Hemisphere - only accessible by air, boat, or foot.

 By 1986, most of these refugee children had been without education for five or more years and the Miskito people asked Mike and Laura Bagby (our partners at Rio Coco Beans) for help in starting a school for the refugee kids in Sawa (our largest partnering village).

Project Ezra teachers have a personal interest in the students as most of them began their education as first graders in Project Ezra schools in the 80’s and 90’s! This year, Project Ezra is educating over 1600 students, grades Kinder thru 12th. This is all possible through many prayers, and financial support  through donations, sponsorship of children and teachers, and profits from Radford Coffee Company and Rio Coco Beans sales. @BlueRidgeStreaming