New coffee shop offers additional support to communities
There is a growing movement among discerning customers to choose products and food produce that is ethical. From looking for free range eggs, hunting down locally-sourced seasonal produce, to choosing Fairtrade products, it seems that the world is changing and developing more of a conscience.
A new coffee shop which has opened recently in Clinton, America, has also this ethos in mind. As well as selling Fairtrade products, according to reports, Coffeelands World Gifts Espresso Café has gone one step further.
What does the coffee shop do that is different? As well as selling the more usual products, such as beverages and homemade edible treats, the café also sells a variety of gifts from around the world, with an emphasis on coffee growing communities.
For instance, the shop’s owner, Ms Kane, bought several jumpers on a recent trip to Peru – but they are jumpers with a difference. The person who made them was blinded by a land mine as a child and after being helped by the Polus Center for Social and Economic Development, with the purchase of a knitting machine, he now creates many wonderful jumpers despite his disability.
The owner of the new café gift shop wants to make sure that her products are accessible and affordable and therefore aims to keep prices reasonable. Ms Kane has also been quoted as confirming that as well as supporting people like the blinded land mine victim, she wants to provide ‘competitive employment’ for the disabled in her shop too.