芙蓉区五一商圈工会驿站开展咖啡疗愈暨中秋主题活动

Brief (coffeeyo.com): With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, a union service station in Changsha’s Wuyi business district invited delivery riders, couriers and ride-hailing drivers in for a “Coffee Healing” session — a pour-over lesson, a tasting and mooncakes — as a small dose of care for workers in new forms of employment.

Changsha Evening News (Zhangshang Changsha), 15 September (correspondent Li Jianyu): With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, warmth arrived early. On 15 September, the union service station in Furong District’s Wuyi business district joined with local merchants to hold a “Coffee Healing · Warm Mid-Autumn” event for people in new forms of employment, inviting food-delivery riders, couriers and ride-hailing drivers into the station to unwind over coffee and feel the union’s festive care.

At the event, professional baristas from a local coffee shop gave a lively “coffee healing class”. Starting with the origins of the beans and the roasting process, they introduced the flavour profiles of different growing regions and demonstrated the full pour-over routine — grinding, pouring, blooming, extraction… As the steam rose, cup after cup of fragrant pour-over coffee emerged, and the aroma washed away the fatigue of days spent constantly on the move.

During the hands-on brewing session, participants tried it themselves. Guided step by step by the baristas, they went from the novelty of grinding beans for the first time, to carefully controlling the flow of water, to tasting the coffee they had brewed with their own hands, their faces full of achievement. “I’m usually busy taking and delivering orders and rarely get the chance to sit down and slowly enjoy a coffee. Today I not only learnt pour-over, I got to drink the coffee I made myself — it felt really healing,” one food-delivery rider said with a smile.

In the tasting session, everyone took time to sense the layers and finish of different beans. The full body and rich aroma slowed the pace of workers who spend their days on the road, letting them enjoy a rare moment of leisure in a relaxed, cheerful atmosphere.

Beyond the coffee experience, the Wuyi business district union service station also held a Mid-Autumn greetings segment. Mooncakes and good wishes conveyed the union’s care and respect for front-line workers. The station is an important base for serving people in new forms of employment: it provides drinking water, hot meals, charging points, rest space and emergency medicines year-round, and runs a regular programme of care activities. Going forward, it will keep pooling the district’s resources and broadening its services, bringing more warmth to workers in new forms of employment and making the city a kinder, more human place.

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