{"id":322905,"date":"2024-12-11T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322905"},"modified":"2024-12-10T22:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T04:03:38","slug":"woman-down-syndrome-passion-open-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-down-syndrome-passion-open-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Young woman with Down syndrome follows her ‘passion’ and prepares to open a caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One young woman in San Antonio, Texas, hasn’t let her Down syndrome diagnosis stand in the way of her dream of owning a restaurant.<\/p>\n

Leah Meyer, 24, will soon be launching her new gluten-free bakery and coffee shop, The Mermaid Caf\u00e9, with a touching slogan: Specialty coffee by special people. That’s because Meyer, who has Down syndrome, has a goal that at least 70% of the staff she employs will have some sort of special needs.<\/p>\n

“For years we have been talking about what the caf\u00e9 would look like, what would be on the menu, and all of the people that would visit,” the caf\u00e9\u2019s website<\/a> says. “One thing we knew for sure is that we wanted it to be a place for people of all abilities to be able to work and make a valuable contribution to society. We want to positively change the perception that people have of those that may be different from themselves.”<\/p>\n