Flavours From Home ~ Slideshow
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• Amarpreet Aluwahlia, Registered Nurse, Riverdale CHC
• Andres Berrio, Workforce Specialist, JVS Toronto
• Jamil Bundali, Urban Planner, Urban Strategies
• Aneil Gokhale, Manager, Resource Development, United Way
Toronto
• Karen Sun, Executive Director, Chinese Canadian National
Council and Candidate for 2010 Toronto City Council – Ward 19
The Team
• Partnered with the North York Harvest Food Bank, this project
explores concrete sustainable opportunities to improve
emergency food services for ethnic communities, including
widening Food Bank’s access to culturally-familiar and nutritious
foods more appropriate to the communities it serves, as well as
supporting the Food Bank to be more accessible to ethnic
communities.
The Project
Food Drives
• Successfully completed at United Way Toronto (Oct. 2009), Procter & Gamble (Dec. 2009)
• North York Harvest Food Bank has chosen to adopt the Flavours
from Home concept for their entire Spring Food drive and BMO will pilot a food drive at their office and branches (May/June 2010)
• With help of a dietician and nutritionist, updated the required food list – “bring what you would eat at home”
Mapping Exercise
• Mapping exercise provides a detailed view of Food Bank’s catchment area
• Shows relationships between member agencies and the community (eg. schools, places of worship, grocery stores, TTC stops, etc.
Harvest Academy
• Through this program, North York Harvest Food Bank (NYHFB) aims to empower interested parties with skills development and capacity building workshops to help them deliver effective community food programs
• Flavours from Home assisted with creating specialized training modules designed and developed for staff and volunteers at NYHFB’s 60 member agencies
• Training workshops include:
– Anti-oppression
– Diversity awareness
– Nutrition
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