3A Blog — clean water

In October, 2024, I (Joe Koenig, Founder) had the opportunity to visit Bolivia with my 16 year old son. The purpose of our visit was to see a completed project, funded by Three Avocados, in Potosí, Bolivia.  We began our journey in St. Louis, with a flight to Houston, then to Panama, and on to Santa Cruz, Bolivia. We stayed overnight in Santa Cruz, which is a very warm, tropical climate. The next morning, we were up early and off to the airport to catch a flight to Sucre, Bolivia. Sucre sits at 9,154ft above sea level. We planned a...

As you may know, today is World Water Day. This year, I'm sending a different message than years past. Usually, it's a reminder to buy some coffee to help provide clean drinking water for those in developing countries. But this year, it's a request to make a donation for clean water.Over the past year, due to the pandemic, numerous of our partners have been limited in travel and unable start new projects. As they are beginning to travel, numerous urgent needs are arising, and our partners are reaching out to see if Three Avocados is able to provide funding. While...

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been four years! I remember the day in 2010 when we had coffee ready to sell for the first time. I had no idea how we were going to sell the few hundred bags of coffee I had sitting in my dining room. But I had faith that it would sell and that soon, we’d be ready to make more. Fast-forward four years and thousands of pounds of coffee later; 20,000 people now have clean drinking water. It’s amazing to see what Three Avocados is turning into. And we’re just getting started. I...

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It didn’t take long today until I had people start asking how I felt about TOMS new one for one coffee product that provides clean water. I think the only way to answer that question is to be 100% real, open, honest, and vulnerable. I pretty quickly went through a couple stages: shock, anger, confusion, sadness, and landing on hope. In January of 2010, I traveled to Uganda with a group from my church. My life was forever changed by what I saw. I came back to the US and quickly launched Three Avocados as a non-profit with a dream...