Garcia, 19, a barista at El K-Fe, making specialty coffee drinks. Casa Familiar, a social services non-profit, has opened the coffee cart at the San Ysidro Health Center to create barista jobs for youth in the San Diego area. Photo: TNS
For the past two years, a non-profit in San Ysidro, California, the United States, has trained some 40 youth to become baristas. The hope has been to equip them with skills and experience to land a job.
But there’s a problem: barista jobs are scarce in San Ysidro, which is home to a single Starbucks store and one Coffee Bean location.
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