Starbucks South Africa Partners With Tiny Owls Baby Home
Starbucks South Africa Partners With Tiny Owls Baby Home. Starbucks South Africa is proud to partner with Tiny Owls Baby Home, a Durbanville-based organisation that provides safety and care for abandoned and relinquished babies awaiting adoption.
Tiny Owls aligns perfectly with Starbucks South Africa’s core values of creating a culture of warmth and belonging, where everyone is welcome, acting with courage, challenging the status quo, and being present, connecting with transparency, dignity, and respect. In response to the incredible work Starbucks South Africa witnessed, it is launching a campaign to help raise funds to support Tiny Owls Baby Home. It aims to get its customers, fellow businesses, and the wider community to join it in this initiative.
Tiny Owls is run by founders Kim and Wayne, who trained to be temporary safety care parents. Most of the babies are received from private and state social workers and are either abandoned or relinquished due to extreme poverty, substance abuse, or violence. They generally arrive a few days old — some with ailments or trauma requiring special medical attention — and stay for an average of six months.
Starbucks coffee is 99% ethically sourced and accredited by Conservation International under the C.A.F.E. Practices programme. Starbucks is committed to ethically sourcing coffee worldwide and including exceptional coffee from nine African countries – Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Burundi, Zambia, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since 1971, Starbucks Coffee Company has been committed to ethically sourcing and roasting high-quality arabica coffee. Today, with almost 33,000 stores worldwide, the company is the premier roaster and retailer of speciality coffee globally.
