GUELPH – Local community food security and food reclamation project Food Equity With Dignity (FEWD) is putting on a fundraiser on May 31 to start the drive to raise the next year’s operating costs of $150,000.
The fundraiser will take place at the Art Bar at 37 Quebec St on the upper level.
It will also be a celebration of two years of providing food to the community.
The funding FEWD received through the City of Guelph’s Our Food Future program is ending and the organization is looking to raise funds, and secure sponsorships, to continue operating for the next year.
FEWD is a registered charity through the Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition.
It provides high quality, by-donation meals every week under the leadership of award winning Red Seal chef Yasi Zorlutuna.
Using food that would otherwise be wasted, Zorlutuna’s menus challenge the ideas of “poor people’s food” by providing a wide range of complex and diverse flavours and techniques, FEWD officials state.
Over the past two years, FEWD has provided 35,000 meals and diverted 15,000 pounds of food from becoming waste.
FEWD currently employs four people, as well as provides a full-time student placement for the University of Guelph. It has a wide base of volunteers.
“Community FEWD is excited to continue serving the Guelph Community. That is why this fundraiser is so important, to celebrate our accomplishments and secure the means to keep this vital program running for years to come, states FEWD founder Yasi Zorlutuna.
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