India' s first cafe that is run by the HIV positive youths is set up at the city of joy Calcutta. It is indeed a great initiative taken by Mr. Kallol Ghosh, founder of ANANDAGHAR, a shelter for HIV positive youths.
Mr. Ghosh is the owner and mastermind behind this "Cafe Positive".
By Tirthankar Das
There is a famous quote by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam that " We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us ".
India' s first cafe that is run by the HIV positive youths is set up at the city of joy Calcutta. It is indeed a great initiative taken by Mr. Kallol Ghosh, founder of ANANDAGHAR, a shelter for HIV positive youths.
Mr. Ghosh is the owner and mastermind behind this CAFE POSITIVE.
" Cafe Positive is a concept, one afternoon when I was sitting with the youths decided to open a startup coffee shop as Humanity runs on coffee, " said Mr. Ghosh. The coffee shop is run by 6 young boys and 4 girls who have undergone training in baking, sandwich making, cocktail and mocktail making. Stripend of rupees 6000 is being given to the youths who are working in the cafe and they are working on the shifting basis.
"We started searching prominent locations for our coffee shop in South Calcutta like - Gariahat, Ballygunge, Dover lane, Hindustan Park, Golpark but everyone refused to rent us a space citing ' problems to be caused by the neighborhood. One morning a call came from a friend of mine who was ready to rent his garage space of 120sqft. to us for the shop and finally, we are able to set up the shop at Jodhpur Park " said Mr. Ghosh.
Mr. Ghosh is thinking about opening other outlets in the cafe around the whole city.
The shop was inaugurated on the holy day of Rathyatra this month.
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