Flavours From Home ~ Slideshow

Flavours from Home

2009 DiverseCity Fellows

• 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.

Special Thanks to Ingrid Stromberg from Urban Strategies for her expertise with mapping

Special Thanks to Ingrid Stromberg from Urban Strategies for her expertise with mapping

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

Media Exposure

The Live Drive with John Tory

Future Opportunities

• Chinese Media• Hispanic Media• Other ethnic media outlets

• Interview with Andy Barrie on October 8, 2009