Kitchener organizations partner for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria
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The KW VegFest is teaming up with other local organizations to help put on a fundraiser dinner this weekend for the earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria.
Local organizations are coming together this weekend to raise money for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria.
A meal is being prepared by the chef and owner of Kitchener’s Queen Shawarma Turkish Cuisine, Sariye Sindy.
One of the organizers of the KW VegFest, Mo Markham, says Sindy came up with the idea after visiting family in Turkey.
“I didn’t realize she was in Turkey when the earthquakes began. She was with two of her daughters, her daughter-in-law and one of her grandbabies,” Markham said.
Markham said Sindy has contributed to the organization’s climate initiative events and all of the VegFest events, and she wanted to do something to help people back home after she saw how they were living.
“I talked to others in the community and we came together to put on this dinner, which Sariye and her husband Karim are cooking for. We really hope our region will come forward and help people overseas as much as possible.”
To organize the fundraiser, KW VegFest collaborated with the Grand River Friendship Society / the Intercultural Dialogue Institute and the Community Kitchen Co-operative of K-W.
Markham said Sunday’s fundraiser is intended not only to raise money for the survivors in the two countries, but to raise awareness too.
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