Two Bay Area Coffee Pros Are Teaming Up for Ramadan | Eater SF

"I found Grand Coffee, a longtime Mission District favorite founded by Nabeel Silmi, is partnering with Jerusalem Coffee House for Ramadan and selling a box of four coffees (boxes go on sale in early March) so folks who are fasting can drink in the evening or before dawn and avoid coffee headaches; at a burn rate of about a bag of coffee a week, Silmi says this helps prevent those headaches. The $100 packages are largely the same as last year—Silmi hopes to sell a few hundred—but with one big difference: as a Palestinian American he is donating proceeds from the box orders to the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), the same cause Grand has supported through sales of its La Llave blend for years. Silmi emphasizes the urgency of the need, saying, “Right now, about 10,000 children have been killed since the Israeli genocide started October 7,” and argues that raising money through coffee sales is the very least they can do." - Paolo Bicchieri