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Bats'il Maya

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Bats'il Maya supports Tseltal families, ensuring fair incomes by selling high-quality, sustainably produced organic coffee directly to consumers.

Chiapas is a State in the South of Mexico known for its rich natural resources and biodiversity. It also offers the perfect conditions for coffee production. However, Chiapas is also the state with the largest number of people living in poverty in Mexico.

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Location
Chilón, Chiapas

Programme
Mexico Accelerator Programme
in partnership with New Ventures

Website
www.batsilmaya.org

Historically, the Tseltals, one of the indigenous groups native to Chiapas, have faced precarious living conditions and exploitation by larger coffee producers. For this reason, Bats’il Maya was born as a cooperative in 1993 to protect the interest of the local coffee producers. Today, the organisation is a social enterprise that fosters synergies among multiple organisations and advocates for better living conditions.

Bats'il Maya also connects final consumers with the producing Tseltal families, who roast, market and make direct organic coffee sales of the highest quality. In this way, the organisation secures fair prices benefiting more than 890 people in 58 communities.

Their fair-trade model guarantees decent income and supports young people, especially women, to expand their self-employment opportunities.

Programme support

Through the Mexico Acceleration Programme with New Ventures, we’ll support Bats’il Maya with advice and tools to optimise their value chain — from production to coffee marketing, improve their organisational structure and increase their presence in the coffee market.

We look forward to supporting the Bats’il Maya team in strengthening their business model, and with that, increase the positive impact for the Tseltal communities in Chiapas.