A group of post-secondary students who are selling local coffee and chocolate products online are partnering with a Victoria charity with the goal of making a positive impact on the city and excelling in their academic endeavours.
Mocha Delight, an online coffee and chocolate shop started by Royal Roads University business administration students, is partnering with the Soup Kitchen in Victoria and they will be donating all of their funds to the charity.
"We have a project running called Business Venture Challenge, so we run a Shopify store in that business, and we have our charity partner with us," said Narinderjit, one of the students who founded Mocha Delight. "We started running ad campaigns on both on Facebook, Instagram and we all started campaigns today on the TikTok and on Instagram reals, and we got an engagement of around 3,000 from our ad campaign, and we do also [have been processing] some orders locally."
The students source their chocolate from UKAW, a peruvian chocolate supplier that recently partnered with Mocha Delight, and their coffee comes from Lighthouse Coffee Roasters which was founded in Myanmar but roasts and distributes their coffee in Vancouver and the lower Mainland.
"It could be more beneficial to the community and also for the supplier itself, because [the products come locally] and it will attract the more local people to us. So that's the vision behind the chocolate and the coffee for us," he said.
Mocha Delight is currently working on figuring out a date to volunteer with the Soup Kitchen.