Salam Ramadan Kitchen
Utopia is cooperating with Shams In Ramadan the month of forgiveness and giving where it found good start for social initiatives.
Şhams Network is a social enterprise that independently generates revenue, to support programs which create positive social impact, build community wealth & directly improve the job skills of people facing barriers to personal development.
Their mission is to develop initiatives, social services and safe spaces to promote sustainable livelihoods for those in need.
In an isolated village called Al-Faour, on the far eastern side of the Beqaa Valley, Utopia will participate with the Shams network in an organized Soup Kitchen which will produce and distribute about 1000 meals per day.
“This town cannot be found on the map, it has basically no infrastructure, no sewage system, no municipality; and it is only until 2016, that the town started receiving electrical power from the government. “
Al Faour Village embraces around 25,000 Lebanese and Palestinian individuals, the vast majority of whom are jobless and living on less than one dollar a day!
One can securely say that the town was in an awful spot, even before the deluge of Syrian refugees, which added around 3,500 individuals to the town, as 9 camps scattered on the edges of the town..
Consistently, numerous comparable Soup Kitchens wind up squandering a great deal of sustenance, and wasting a lot of plastic, as well as animal abuse, which is oxymoronic to the embodiment and center estimations of the period of Ramadan.
“Thus Ramadan kitchen menu will be mainly plant-based, with a bare-minimum use of plastic, a proper management/disposal and recycling system for our solid waste; as well as constructive para-activities such as planting trees and other various plants between the refugee camps of Al-Faour, in an attempt to counter the inevitable degradation of the area’s flora.”
This Time Change Relies on both Volunteerism and Donations, Let’s see how much we are able to achieve in this holy month!