After moving thousands of miles away from home in India to London, Ananya Sharma, 25, was quickly gripped by a feeling of loneliness, so she decided to open her own café at home to make friends, and she has been inundated with hundreds of people who want to come.
Video by Cover Media.
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00:00So, I moved to London about a year ago from India.
00:12I moved all alone with no family and no friends and I was kind of getting tired of spending
00:17my weekends alone.
00:18So, I posted a video on TikTok saying that I want to make friends and I want to do it
00:22over coffee.
00:23So, Breville spotted my video on TikTok and they really wanted to help and get involved
00:28with my home cafe.
00:29We kind of saw her TikToks of making friends, so we all commented.
00:33I think that's how we became friends as well.
00:34I'm in London and I don't have friends.
00:37Yeah, that's the video I think.
00:39And I was one of the few who first met her through commenting and I think we hit it off
00:44from then.
00:45We've been like friends since then but more like, you know, sisterhood and like being
00:50sisters and bullying each other but in a good way.
00:52I think at-home coffee mornings are a great way to bond with people because you already
00:56have something in common.
00:57I think most people have a favourite coffee beverage.
01:01It's stripped down and you can have these intimate conversations that flow very comfortably.
01:07Honestly, this machine is so easy to use, super easy to clean and I get to have like
01:12cafe quality coffee every single morning.
01:14So, our research shows that 66% of people feel lonely in their day-to-day lives and
01:19Ananya is living proof that an at-home coffee morning is a great way to battle that.