Cacao source works closely with independent local farmers and women’s collectives. The essence of our business model is to increase the value of our collaboration with the Guatemala local community. With encouraging organic small scale local farms, we favorise the financial success of farmers pursuing an environmentally friendly path, encouraging the neighbourhood to follow a similar path, outside the cooperative world.

With 3 women’s collective located around Lake Atitlan, our international team works closely with the local community. The ´ćacao processing work’ is a well-honoured job to have as it allows a good lifestyle with a close community and family and usually is well paid. There is no training required, when developing the team we simply seek good-hearted, trustful and attentional to detail women. We generally aim to prioritize women with a bigger need for income to support unique situations or unemployed mothers.

About ⅔ of our cacao sales go to the local community, without including shipment and bank fees. We designed a business model in which our cacao products profit would considerably go towards the community and land which nourished it. Therefore, to have a financially sustainable business, our international team gets creative with new channels of offerings that will support Cacao Source mission to honour and share cacao.

In order to completely close the cycles of our social business, the international team of Cacao Source aims to give back 10% of their profits to a local environmental project supporting the rejuvenation of our forest.

Therefore, we support the local community, the environment and the financial sustainability of every member part of the creation of the delicious pure artisanal cacao block that may be ship at your door.