We defend... our land, whose fertility we strive to maintain.  To this end, we also refrain from using chemical fertilizers which our well-maintained land does not need.

To improve the soil, sub-soil and the plants we are implementing various programs such as organic composting, plant barriers, terraces, leguminous covers and the pruning of shade trees.

We defend our WORK AND THE FRUITS that MOTHER EARTH provides for us.

We strive... to we sell directly to roasters in several countries and to cooperatives and communities in our region and national market, rather than sell our coffee to intermediaries.

We don't want to depend totally on coffee. Rather than planting more coffee plants, we try to improve the existing coffee plantations. In addition, we also plant corn, beans, vegetables and fruit-plants.

We defend our HEALTH, which enables us to work better and to be cheerful, with fewer concerns. For this reason, we strive to improve nutrition: more fruits and vegetables, use of local medicinal herbs and plants, and cleanliness during food preparation.

We strive towards the betterment on our HOUSE, with our children, with a kitchen, a good bathroom, and comfortable, dry spaces. We continue our struggle so that towns will have electricity, potable water, roads and communication.

We try to maintain our CULTURE AND WISDOM, and to improve it if necessary, and to value the good things given to us by our ancestors. We encourage our compatriots to speak their own languages, 
because it is our culture. We also strive to improve relations with authorities so that they may serve us better and help us, rather than deceive us. In this way, we can respect them.

We organize ourselves better all the time, being more conscious of our struggles and practices of what we can and need to do.  We are not miserable but we are poor people who defend our dignity and have hope and faith in ourselves.  This is because we believe in a God that gives us strength, light, warmth, water, fruits and everything we need that the Earth provides.  The solidarity and love with which we cultivate the Earth is the same solidarity and love in which God holds us.

For various reasons, we don’t all belong to the same Christian Church.  Some of us are Catholics and others Evangelists, but we want to work and struggle together with a mutual respect.  We all have faith in the same God, the same Bible and the same Word of God, and most of us study and celebrate our faith with our many customs although in different temples.  We don’t want to create divisions between villages or between brothers and sisters – children of the same God.  This way, little by little, we will understand each other better and will end up being more closely united.