合肥：咖啡渣变手工皂，公益见证特殊儿童成长

Brief (coffeeyo.com): A charity event in Hefei used spent coffee grounds to teach children with special needs how to make handmade soap, building fine motor and social skills along the way. The eight-week project, backed by the Starbucks Foundation, will sell the children’s work to fund their rehabilitation.

On the afternoon of 10 September, a charity event titled “Star Grounds in Bloom, Soap Warms Young Hearts” was held in Weilou Community, Hefei. Working one-on-one with rehabilitation therapists, children with special needs learned to identify materials, stir the mixture and pour soap into moulds, practising fine motor, social and cooperative skills through the hands-on work.

Coffee-grounds handmade soap

As a designated implementing body for Anhui Province’s livelihood projects, the Baobeiqin Special Children’s Rehabilitation Center has worked in children’s rehabilitation for more than a decade. This project draws on a grant from the Starbucks Foundation’s “Future Star Community” programme, combining the recycling of spent coffee grounds with rehabilitation practice for children with special needs. The eight-week programme runs a four-week coffee-grounds soap-making course for 12 children with basic hands-on ability. The finished soaps will later be sold at a charity sale, with the proceeds going to the children’s rehabilitation and to running the courses.

At the event, the children presented guests with the coffee-grounds soaps they had made themselves, and took part in coffee tasting, making scented coffee-grounds tags, performances and interactive games. Next, the two partners will run coffee-grounds craft classes on an ongoing basis, exploring more product lines such as scented sachets and body scrubs, closing the loop from making to output to charity sales. The aim is a sustainable model of support that builds a platform for inclusion across abilities and helps the children grow and develop. (Text and photos by Fan Dongbo)

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