Starting today, a Green River Area Down Syndrome Association is selling their possess code of coffee — called Down Right Perfect Coffee.
Executive Director Tiffany Thrash pronounced a coffee attention seemed like a judicious place to enter a sell universe since it is a line of work that employs many people with Down syndrome opposite a country.
Thrash is carefree that Down Right Perfect Coffee will transition GRADSA from a internal tack to a domicile name opposite a country. The name for a coffee comes from a word “down right perfect” that is used to report people innate with Down syndrome.
“The name says it all and represents what we trust during GRADSA,” she said. “Individuals with Down syndrome are in fact down right perfect, and we devise to start display that on a incomparable scale, commencement with this product.”
While their aspirations are far-reaching, Thrash is austere about building a bottom locally.
“My initial idea is to have internal businesses get on house with a recognition by portion a coffee,” she said. “From there we would strech out to coffee shops around a nation that occupy people with disabilities, as good as some who don’t, to widespread believe about a coffee.”
In a initial phase, Down Right Perfect Coffee will be sole on a organization’s website for $15 for a 16-oz bag. The idea is to have a coffee on shelves by a finish of a year before eventually securing a trickery to work a internal coffee shop, contracting adults with Down syndrome.
Online coffee sales are set to launch currently during gradsa.org. Additional information can be found on a organization’s website and Facebook page.
“I have faith in a community, and we know many will be prepared to burst on house to assistance lift recognition with us,” Thrash said. “The coffee is high peculiarity and is made in Kentucky, that advantages a state’s economy in further to a families we serve.”
GRADSA exists to respect all things Down syndrome and move recognition to a abilities those with Down syndrome have to offer.
Retail coffee now joins a prolonged list of GRADSA products and events a classification provides for Owensboro, including corporate partnerships, 5k runs, and a Buddy Walk.
These offerings exist to lift income for a organization’s services, that support approximately 150 families any year.