“When I think about the freedom cafe, and the mission to secure human rights for those in need, I see that it has become a part of me as a public health graduate student at Cornell."
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Did you know that an average of 173 million tons of sugar are produced worldwide each year, and much of it comes from farms that use forced labor child labor and event forced child labor in countries like Mexico, India, Bolivia, and more. Being aware of your sugar consumption and where you are sourcing your ingredients is the first step towards becoming a conscious consumer!
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Recent UNH Today article, "A Movement on the Move," features The Freedom Cafe. The article shares the evolution of the café from our humble beginnings to our move to Main Street! We are so proud of how far we have come and grateful to be on this journey with you!
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Carol has been a volunteer barista at the Freedom Café for about four years. She began volunteering with us during her freshman year at UNH after attending a Perform for Freedom event. She has since graduated, but continues to live in the area and volunteer each week.
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Meet Rachel, one of our very dedicated board members! Rachel has been involved with the Freedom Café since her freshman year at UNH in 2014, when she started out as a volunteer barista, and has been moving up through the ranks ever since! In her time here, Rachel co-founded the Outreach Team, worked as an HR intern, and helped managed the café's interns as Assistant Director.
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Today marks a pivotal day in the history of the Café!!!… too dramatic. Today marks a pivotal day in my history with the Café! This will be my first week, as an employee, that I will not have to stick my hands in the dirty compost bin to condense everything into an 8 gallon Mr. Fox Composting bin. We’ve gone commercial size!!! 32 gallons of glorious space!!!!!! Big shout out to the incredible company @mrfoxcomposting for offering services! I’m so emotional about this that I wrote an entire blog on my journey over the past 6 months with composting via the Freedom Café.
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