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Podcast fame: Have you Bean to Café Y yet?
Internet fame at last – Cafe Y hosted the wonderful team at ShirePod and are the latest stars of their roaming podcast The Bean There. Have you listened yet?
The Bean There aims to help Café’s like ours to reach more people in the Shire community, whilst discussing important community issues. For us, it was a fantastic opportunity to spread the word about the work we do at Project Youth in transforming the lives of local young people.
Annette Testa, youth housing consultant and Nicole Dargie, teen empowerment coach joined us on the live broadcast to talk about the challenges young people in our community are facing.
Of course, we also heard from Project Youth heroes Karen and Justin. Listen in to hear them discussing how youth are often forced to deal with displacement from their homes, overcoming trauma, homelessness and unemployment. We also celebrate the success of Café Y in reengaging young people in education and improving their employment opportunities.
Our personal highlight was hearing from Café Y’s front of house and talented barista Tash, who told her inspiring story about how her life was transformed by Project Youth. Tash – you are an incredible asset to Café Y, and we are forever grateful for your hard work and your contagious smile.
We also welcomed the lovely Sarah-Jo from So Shire to chat about environmentally friendly living. Sarah educated us about ‘contactless pour’, which Tash demonstrated – a method of using your reusable coffee cup without contact to ensure COVID safety. Think green – bring your reusable cups down to Café Y and test Tash’s contactless pouring talent.
So Shire were also impressed with Cafe Y’s new vegetable garden, for which we are currently accepting donations. Shoutout to Pip and the ShirePod team for their generous donation of a chilli plant – we can’t wait to serve a tasty dollop of chilli jam with lunch at Café Y.
We would like to say a huge thank you to Shirepod for giving us the platform to tell the community about what we do here at Project Youth, and why supporting Cafe Y is so rewarding.
Plug in your headphones and listen to the podcast over a cuppa at Café Y - https://shirepod.podbean.com
Project Youth helps young people deal with and get through difficult situations.
Project Youth acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We acknowledge that this always was and always will be Aboriginal land and we pay our respects to Elders past, present & future.
