Your non-fat mocha latte from Starbucks may cost close to five dollars—but how much of that money will the coffee bean farmer who made your caffeine buzz possible see?

Maybe a few cents, if he’s lucky—most coffee farmers receive only around 12 to 25 cents for every pound of coffee they sell, which, when adjusted for inflation, is less than coffee farmers were making 100 years ago.

Although companies that engage in fair trade practices help to ensure that participating coffee farmers make a living wage, more than 25 million people in countries like Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala depend on coffee farming for a living, and as the industry expands, coffee sales are not profitable enough to keep all of these families out of poverty. Especially now that the economic bubble has burst, many people are cutting back on their daily lattes—which can leave the coffee farmers with no way to make an income for their families to live on.

Coffee Kids is working to help these vulnerable families reach sustainability, by helping them to reach beyond the coffee growing trade in order to support themselves. The organization partners with local nonprofits in the farmers’ communities to offer educational programs, business training, microfinance loans, and health care in order to ensure that coffee farmers and their families can gain access to other opportunities for revenue, giving them a future that doesn’t depend on whether or not you feel like stopping at Starbucks every morning.