A couple of weeks ago, we were invited to the launch of Seattle’s Best Coffee’s new Christmas-inspired drinks and their new partnership with World Vision, the world’s largest child sponsorship agency, an advocacy we support so we gladly came to celebrate with them along with fellow bloggers. While waiting for the program to start, we went in their cafe and ordered Mocha Javakula, Strawberry Milkshake and their Oreo cheesecake.

The program started a little late at around 7pm when the hosts finally came on-stage – Divine Lee and her beau Victor Basa. They first introduced us to Seattle’s Best new blends in time for Christmas – Chocolate Cherry, Coffee Hazelnut, Cookies and Mint, and Coffee Cream Pie.

Just by the names of these new blends, you’d know they sure will tickle your taste buds. We got to try a hot cup of Coffee Hazelnut with white chocolate that night and we loved the sweet nuttiness of this blend. Surely, there’s one flavor that will be your favorite. 🙂

After the presentation of the new flavors, they shared with us the story behind the partnership of Seattle’s Best and World Vision by calling on the 4 ambassadors of the said advocacy here in the Philippines – Tintin Bersola-Babao, Cristalle Belo, Marc Nelson and Miriam Quiambao.

Each of them shared their own stories about sponsoring a kid. Each of Tintin’s family member has a sponsored child and you can really tell she is very passionate about her advocacies.

Cristalle encouraged us to spread the word about World Vision and what they do to improve the lives of thousands of kids all over the world by providing a venue for those who want to help, but don’t know where to go or how to go about it.

Marc Nelson now has 11 sponsored kids, which made us admire him more. He proudly says that World Vision is the most organized charity / advocacy organization he’s ever encountered. He continues on telling us that when you sponsor a kid’s education, you get updates from them like their grades, letters, etc.

Miriam then tells us more about what the Php 600 per month can do for your sponsored kid – not just help them get an education, but also provide medical and dental care, housing, etc. We were pleasantly surprised by these information. She also mentioned that World Vision focuses on calamity-stricken areas around the Philippines to provide the people, especially the youth, more hope for a better future.

We were deeply touched and inspired by these ambassadors. And we do hope to be given a chance to sponsor a kid’s education soon. If you already want to help, you can directly work with World Vision. Visit their website www.worldvision.org.ph. Or you can do so while enjoying your favorite Seattle’s Best Coffee (SBC), as Rea Cruz, SBC’s General Manager, said at the launch.

This time around, when you collect stickers to redeem a Dream Journal from Seattle’s Best, you get 2 stickers – one for your Dream Card and the other is for the World Vision Dream Tree. For every journal a customer redeems, a portion of the proceeds go towards sponsoring children in need to go to school through World Vision. Nice, eh?

The Seattle’s Best Dream Journal contains free music, food and drinks coupons, up to 24 hours worth of free WiFi at selected Seattle’s Best coffee shops, and other goodies. You only need 18 stickers to redeem one. 🙂

So, head on over to your favorite Seattle’s Best Coffee shop and collect those stickers for the Dream Journal and to help World Vision – a kind way to give back this Christmas season. 🙂