restaurants4change

World Food Day - October 16, 2009 - check out these restaurants that are hungry4change. Join them! Have a great meal and help out Oxfam's work helping weomen and men around the world improve their lives and their communities.

Restaurants across Canada will be serving up change on Friday October 16 as they mark World Food Day with 'hungry4change. From the Yellowknife to Markham, diners will notice pamphlets and posters about hunger in the world and donation envelopes tucked into their billfolds, allowing them to donate directly to Oxfam Canada projects that help ease hunger.

'Hungry4change turns a dinner out into an act of compassion, said Robert Fox, executive director of Oxfam Canada. 'We use these funds to support partners in places like Cuba and Mozambique, who train and support small-scale farmers already facing shortened growing seasons brought on by climate change.

Restaurants participating in hungry4change include:

 

Yellowknife

Fuego International CuisingFuego International Cuisine - 4915 50th St, Yellowknife, NT X1A 3X7 867-446-1941

 

 

 

The Twist LoungeThe Twist Lounge - 4915 50th St, Yellowknife, NT X1A 3X7 867-446-1941

 

Toronto Area

 

Boston PizzaBoston Pizza 7680 Markham Road, Markham, ON L3S 3K1
905-201-0477

 

Hollywood on the QueenswayHollywood on the Queensway 1184 The Queensway, Etobicoke, ON M8Z 1R6 416-251-0288

 

Zimbel's Café 410 Adelaide Street West, Suite 109, Toronto, ON M5V 1S8 416-588-3545

 

CoquineCoquine 2373 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4P 2C8 416-322-6767

 

 

 

 

granograno 2035 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4S 2A2 416-440-1986

 

 

 

Last year, diners and servers at Yellowknife's Fuego International Cuisine raised $1,000. Servers donated their tips, while owner Kaven Paradis donated 10 per cent of the evening's sales to the hunger-awareness campaign.

"People were very appreciative of what we were doing, and they gave very generous tips, some over 50 per cent of their bill, said Vanessa Baron, Fuego's entertainment & special event coordinator. 'We are proud to say that we are not just a profitable business, but a business with a social conscience."

At a time when the global economic crisis dominates the news, the world needs to be reminded that the downturn affects more than just office and factory workers. The crisis is also hurting small-scale farms and rural areas, where 70 per cent of the world's hungry live and work.

With an estimated increase of 105 million hungry people in 2009, the UN's Food & Agriculture Organization estimate there are now 1.02 billion malnourished people in the world, meaning that almost one sixth of all humanity is going hungry.

Reservations at the participating restaurants are recommended.