As well as providing a place where people can connect and do life, Agora wants to continually serve those who are in need.

Christchurch based Bright Hope World, is committed to helping those living in extreme poverty, who earn less than $1 a day. They do this by focusing on Sustainable Development, Christian Community, and Relief In Crisis. Café Agora partners with Bright Hope World through supporting La Mai Coffee and Rahab Ministries.

For more information go to
www.brighthopeworld.com

Every cup of coffee at Café Agora is making a difference. La Mai is an organic, fairly traded coffee that is bringing hope to the people of northern Thailand. Farmers who once grew opium poppies and were central to the drug trade now grow high quality coffee beans instead. La Mai beans are then shipped directly to New Zealand and roasted with care in small batches. This captures the unique regional flavours and produces a great tasting cup of coffee.

You can purchase La Mai Coffee in both 1kg and 200g take home packs. Buy it as whole beans or freshly ground with wholesale profits going back to Thailand to fight child prostitution.

For more information or to purchase coffee online go to
www.lamai.co.nz/

Dropping your loose change in the PINK PIG at Café Agora is helping young girls escape prostitution in Thailand. Bangkok based Rahab Ministries, is sharing the love of Jesus by providing practical help, emotional support, and giving opportunities for education, vocational training and alternative employment to women working in prostitution. Many young women have been freed from slavery to the sex trade and now are safely housed, part of a healthy community, trained in a new trade such as jewellery making or hairdressing and taught English which will improve their chances of securing long-term employment.

For more information go to 
www.rahabministriesthailand.com/

Purchasing hot beverages from Cafe Agora is not only about getting a great drink, it is also about supporting our community.  With your help we can support the ''Thailand Project" during February.
This month we are sending a group of 13 people off to a village in Thailand.
The purpose of the group going over to Thailand is to help the village have clean H2O and to have a new sanitation system.

For more information click the link below.

www.cafeagora.net.nz/page/H2O_to_THAILAND
 

So for the month of February help us support Thailand by purchasing a hot beverage from Agora.