The Belarusian wheelchair barista 'making the world better'
Updated On: 11 August, 2024 12:35 PM IST | Mumbai | AFP
Sasha Avdevich a wheelchair user, founded the first "Inclusive Barista" coffee shop while still in Belarus and quickly shot to fame as a disability campaigner in the country controlled with an iron fist by strongman president Alexander Lukashenko
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Barista Olya makes coffee during the opening of the coffee house `Inclusive Barista`, the first cafe in Poland with a workspace fully adapted for employees in wheelchairs, in Warsaw on April 7, 2024. Pic/AFP
With its sleek interior and freshly ground coffee, the cafe run by Belarusian exile Sasha Avdevich may at first glance seem like yet another trendy spot in Warsaw.
But the lowered, wheelchair-accessible countertop and a sticker reading: "The barista on shift has a hearing impairment" in Polish, English and Belarusian reveal this is no ordinary business.
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