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YOU’VE HEARD OF
COMMUNITY-BASED
TOURISM,
HOW ABOUT
COMMUNITY-BASED
CAFÉ?
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When the topic of sustainability popped up in the many random
conversations my colleagues and I had, a quaint café called Kafe
SUSTAINABILITY Basikal Tua weaved its way into the conversation.
A café nestled all the way at Kampung Sungai Penchala, is run by
ON THE GO an Encik Iskandar, fondly known as Encik Is who he himself is a
differently abled person found a way to connect and educate the
general public that hey, they’re not so different from us after all.
Encik Is created this café with the intention of hiring differently
In this new section of our e-magazine, we will be highlighting the abled people as a form of job creation for them due to the
discrimination they would often face when searching for
efforts of #goingsustainable by Malaysians themselves employment.
However, due to the pandemic, he scrapped this idea to avoid
jeopardizing their health and instead opted to exclusively employ
from families with differently abled family members to provide the
food for the café.
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