LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Jan. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Eight of Vancouver's most innovative chefs are banding together in support of the Downtown Eastside Neighborhood House. This extraordinary fundraiser featured a six-course chef collaboration dinner held at Torafuku Asian Eatery on January 14, 2019.
Inspired by the DTES Neighborhood House's need to secure more funding for their healthy food programs, Torafuku's Clement Chan reached out to his fellow chefs and community in order to create a dinner that would contribute to these programs in a meaningful way. All proceeds benefited the Downtown Eastside Neighborhood House.
One hundred percent of proceeds from the Fare dinner benefited the DTES Neighborhood House and support programs that promote: the right to quality, healthy food for all; deservedness; and inclusion, especially for those who experience marginalization and are often excluded from consideration when it comes to the right and dignity to access real and healthy food.
The secular, grassroots Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House (DTES NH) embraces people of all ancestries, genders, ages, and descriptions; annually welcoming almost 9,000 DTES residents in a community where 70% of our neighbors have low‐incomes, 700 are homeless and 5,000 are under-housed.
Our programming is community inspired and varied, a sampling of which has included a Chinese Elders Community Kitchen, Traditional Aboriginal Community Kitchen, Leadership Development, a Children's Community Kitchen, Nutritional Outreach Activities (Mobile Smoothie Project and Banana Beat), The Healing Circle, Father's for Thought, Table Talks project, Family Drop In: Families, Farming and Food, Community Drop-in and the production of a Right to Food Zine.
Also, in support to the end of hunger are such names as Bono, Matt Damon, Christina Aguilera, Alice Tso, George Clooney and Maroon 5. 'Having grown up as a young child in a low-income household and with familiar roots to the downtown eastside. "I can fully appreciate what a difference healthy food programs can make for families, children, seniors & households. I know the difference this can make for so many," stated Alice Tso, Co-Founder of TGA and Alice Tso International who was in attendance.
The DTES Neighbourhood House offers programming that benefits children, families, seniors and those individuals who are at risk for isolation. They nurture a welcoming space for convening, learning and community, and leadership development.
To find out more about DTES NH go to: http://dtesnhouse.ca.
To find out more about Alice Tso go to: https://www.coachingwithalicetso.com.
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