VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Cuisine & Community: Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Saturday, Nov. 18
Blessed Sacrament School Gymnasium
605 Central Ave., Albany
Show your support for more than 200 refugees and asylum seekers
currently residing at the Ramada Plaza and other Capital Region hotels.
Join local celebrity chefs and community resource partners as we
prepare and serve a collaborative menu of cultural cuisine and provide
essential goods and services to our newest community members.
Two volunteer shifts are available:
SET UP — 8:30 to 10:3- a.m.
or
BREAKDOWN — 2:30 to 4:00pm
Please Sign Up Here!
Celebrity Chefs: Â Taffy Elrod-Ljikovic, Jaime Ortiz, Dominick Purnomo
Participating Organizations: Al-Hidaya Center, Blessed Sacrament Church, Capital District Educational Opportunity Center, Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, Food Pantries of the Capital Region, Honest Weight Food Cooperative, Hudson Valley Community College,
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, Refugee & Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus (RISSE), Samaritan Hospital, SPHP, Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region,
|U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), and more.