CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — A special preparation clergyman in Chesterfield County started a GoFundMe in an bid to lift income for a coffee emporium where she would sinecure people with egghead and developmental disabilities.
“We, as humans, all wish to make a tie and we don’t know any improved approach to do it than with coffee,” Keri Lee, who combined she had been meditative of a thought for a past 5 or 6 years, said.
“This year I’ve been articulate about it a lot more. It has just, for some reason, taken base in my heart,” pronounced Lee. “My son…got sleepy of conference him pronounce about it and he said, ‘It’s time.'”
The GoFundMe aims to lift $20,000 to assistance compensate for a equipment, securing a storefront, and profitable for training. Lee pronounced she has an agreement with a internal coffee spit to assistance with a training.
She is anticipating to secure a storefront in a Midlothian area.
Lee pronounced her enterprise to start a coffee emporium came from her work as a special preparation clergyman over a past decade.
“That unequivocally is where we satisfied that it was a truly underserved village of individuals. They are removing prepared to connoisseur high school. They all have skills to offer and they’re struggling when they leave high propagandize to find a place to work or serve their education,” she said. “My idea is, when we work with these students, to make them as eccentric as probable and to assistance them self-advocate. So, like, we ask questions if they don’t understand, to pronounce adult if they need something and that is something we unequivocally consider we can do with a coffee shop.”
Lee pronounced her wish is to occupy between 10 to 15 people.
“We intend on doing this in a two-fold way. One is providing, like, an internship to students while they’re in school. So, they could come during a propagandize day for tiny amounts of time, be lerned in several aspects of a business,” explained Lee. “And afterwards we also find to have employees. Whether they come from high propagandize or either they’re tangible adults. We have a training module we’ll put them through. But we intend on carrying them wherever they feel like they fit best. If they do not wish to pronounce to customers, they don’t have to. We have people who that would be a strength for.”
Lee pronounced a name of a coffee emporium will be “Thrive”.
“We unequivocally feel like we’re going to have a place where people with disabilities don’t only attain and only come to work, we unequivocally wish them to thrive,” combined Lee.
She pronounced she has practical to make a association a non-profit and already has a house in place prepared to take control if that is approved.
She combined that best box scenario, a emporium will be prepared for a soothing opening in Dec and have a tough open in Jan 2020.