Aliquippa Youth Coalition Unveils Coffee Sleeve Project To Fight Drug Abuse

Recently, The Drug Free Aliquippa Youth Coalition unveiled 9000 coffee sleeves at a Drug Free Aliquippa Committee meeting held at the Aliquippa High School Black Box Theater on Thursday April 12.  Alfred Brand, Tyrese Abercrombie, Kataijah Council and Christina Czambel lead a student run project that created coffee sleeves that raise awareness about the effects that drinking and drug use can have.  The Coffee cup sleeves are designed to go around a cup of to go coffee and help provide a layer of insulation to help make a hot cup of coffee more comfortable to hold.  In addition, they have an important message printed on them. The coffee sleeves will be available shortly at coffee shops and convenience stores in the Aliquippa Area. Hanna Haney – Executive Director for the Keystone Wellness Program and coordinator of the youth coalition program for the Drug Free Aliquippa Project. oversaw the project for the Aliquippa students and offered this comment…

Tyrese Arbercrombie was one of the students involved with the project and he talked about the message that the coffee sleeves promote as well as how posting a picture in social media and using a hash tag can help get the anti drug and alcohol message across…
Christina Czambel (sambel) added that the coffee sleeves will help get the group’s positive message out across multiple generations…
Hanna Haney explained about how to find out where the coffee sleeves will be available, as well as where and how to post pictures with the group’s hash tag…