Donate to the De'Aruhuä Cacao Trust

Donate to De'Aruhuä Cacao

All donations made to our Trust Fund are distributed directly to families when they plant cacao, we get more cacao, people are employed, trees are planted to fight climate change and forests are preserved for future generations to continue to provide ecosystem services. We all win and people get to eat Indigenous Chocolate a byproduct of the Ecosystem Services created by the Indigenous philanthropy. 

Any amount of money will get trees planted and people employed based on protractive costs donated for awards to families based on their time, place and opportunity. It costs approximately $19 over two years to produce, plant and map with a geomarker a one meter tall, staked wild cacao tree. Family grants are based on a single donor or a series of smaller donors providing $2,500 which is disbursed in 4 payments over 2 years to the family planting cacao. Families must plant 100 trees or more and map the trees with an Indigenous Conservation Officer designated by the court.

Donations Plant Trees, Investments Make Chocolate

Sometimes it seems too far away to be optimistic, while donations are getting more trees planted for De'Aruhuä Indigenous Chocolate in the coming years; hopes and plans to build a chocolate factory sometime between 2023 and 2025 are well in the works. In exchange for donations of $2,500 what we can offer are direct-trade contracts with free, prior and informed consent, FPIC Certification is actually the only 'legal way' a non-indigenous person can label their product with our point of origin or suggest any connection with our Indigenous culture.

The chocolate factory is not funded through "donations" because it will remain under the ownership of the sponsors for the first five-six years under a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Project Plan that is a Mission Related Investment (MRI) capital asset project that involves tax-exempt charitable activity bonds which provide a higher yield for philanthropists.