Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

From the very beginning at Marley Coffee, we have appreciated the importance of growing our beans sustainably.

When you're growing up in Jamaica and you don't have much, and then you gain more and more... you can now share the more that you have with the people that have less because you know what less is like.

I spent time living in Ethiopia, learning about the cultural importance of coffee and its roots in Ethiopia.

Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

I enjoy the challenge of being a father... I try to do my best to be there for my children.

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.