HOUSTON – It takes about 3 mins to make a mochanut coffee during A 2nd Cup, though progressing currently it usually took seconds for large lives to be changed.
“A 2nd Cup, we are a $100,000 leader from Reliant Gives,” boss of NRG Retail and Reliant Elizabeth Killinger announced.
“I feel like my mind only kind of went blank, like ‘waaa.’ we can’t trust this is happening,” Erica Raggett said.
The tour to this impulse began 6 1/2 years ago for Raggett. She was a clergyman in Houston when she listened a display on tellurian trafficking during her church.
“My mind was blown and we was frightened and angry and … we listened stats, like a normal age of entrance into sex trafficking is 12 to 14 years old. we was, ‘Those are a kids that I’m teaching,’” pronounced Raggett. “I wish to do something. we wish to be partial of a solution.”
So she founded “A 2nd Cup.”
What began as a pop-up coffee emporium on a travel found a home in a Heights in late 2015. It’s helped attract others with a same passion such as Alyse Bordelon.
“A lot of people come in here not meaningful that it’s a nonprofit, not meaningful that all of their resources go towards fighting tellurian trafficking. They consider it’s only a coffee shop,” Bordelon said.
In fact, that was Bordelon’s story in January. Now, she volunteers during a emporium during slightest twice a week and was a Reliant worker who nominated A 2nd Cup to accept a $100,000 grant. It’s income that will assistance launch their nonprofit coffee emporium and culinary training module for survivors.
“I’m unequivocally vehement to support those survivors in removing jobs that they get to keep that are going to lift them into independence,” Bordelon said.
“The thought that we can assistance them supplement a module that helps sight people who are former victims of tellurian trafficking so that they can arise skills and transition to a life that anyone would wish to have, it’s only unequivocally amazing,” Killinger said.
“Our trademark is a phoenix since we unequivocally consider that they can arise and do something beautiful,” Raggett said.
If we don’t like coffee though still wish to support A 2nd Cup, afterwards you’re in luck.
Local Fare for Local Freedom: A Foodie-Friendly Fundraiser is holding place during A 2nd Cup on Jun 4 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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