About Cocoa Family

At the early age of 10 years old, Victor Garcia, our founder, son of a poor family of 12 siblings in a remote rural community of the Dominican Republic, struggled to swim against the current to escape poverty. It was under these circumstances, motivated by the love of the family and the desire to see them with a better quality of life, he decided firmly, in an act of premature maturity, to work in a cacao farm for only 10cents a day.



The years went by, in a dance of life impregnated by the aroma of cacao, fruit with which it would develop an almost mystical language, through which, perhaps, ancestors transmitted all the secrets about quality, because that’s what the earth does when you work it with love. And there he became a man and a teacher without excuses, or pretexts, because hard work only managed to edify him, dressing him with a crust as robust as that of cacao itself. He educated others, transmitting integrity, and the population witnessed his dedication, and the trees witnessed his perseverance. His passion for cacao was so great, that years after hard work, that child of 10 cents to which life itself had substituted toys for hard-earned work, managed to acquire a farm that turned him into a man.