Hello everyone,

On Friday April 13th, The Eat2Feed Program held its second feeding events at “Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets”- PSKS- in Seattle, WA. What a delightful evening it was! A group of great people enjoying some delicious Asian fusion food from the reputed Inchin Bamboo Garden in Redmond, WA while exchanging very insightful thoughts. The event was attended by men and women of all ages and was enriched by the presence of people from different backgrounds with very intriguing life experiences. The discussion was fun and educating, ranging from stories told both in the Bible and the Quran to fashionable styles available to Muslim women and more. One of the main topics discussed was the role Muslim women play in society, how they are perceived and how perceive themselves. Everyone in the audience enjoyed hearing about it, giving feedback and raising interesting questions.

The dinner lasted for about 2 hours. We shared lots of laughs and heard perspectives from kids as young as 7 years old on various topics. We talked about the place of race and religion in society, about marriage and about places people travelled to. It was truly refreshing!

Thanks to everyone who attended and graced us with their presence. And to the Eat2Feed team, congratulations on yet another successful event!

I am sure you all are excited to take a look at some of the pictures taken during the event. We hope that enjoy them :)

More Excitement!

Hello Eat2Feed Followers,

This is just a short summary of what we have been up to.

Gram Masala Officially on board- We have some exciting news to share with you all. Our plan to expand and to reach out to more people is coming together as we are making efforts to have more restaurants come onboard with our program. Gram Masala at the University District in Seattle is now officially part of our program. We are in the process of producing tickets and will update you as soon as they are ready.

Second Feeding Event- Our next steps will be a feeding event at Peace For The Streets - a homeless youth support group in Seattle. The location for the event is at: 1814 Summit Avenue, Seattle, 98122. The date and time will be determined soon. We hope to get many people as we have made lots of ticket sales thanks to all the members’ efforts especially brother Fawzy who sold $800 worth of tickets!!!!! Is that great or what!!

Potential Funder- Sister Liza did a terrific job at organizing a very productive meeting where she shared the news of a potential funding partner for our program. It seems that we are impressing more and more people each day and this is very exciting to us- and hopefully to all of you as well.

Watch for updates of the event along with photos and comments from the people attending.

Looking forward to another successful evening of food, compassion and fun!

Manel- A member of the Eat2Feed team

A few updates

Dear followers of the Eat2Feed Program,

Our team wanted to provide you with a brief update on what we have been up to.

First, we looked at our overall structure and identified some key areas of improvement that we want to focus on in the upcoming months. From there - we prioritized them based on importance to the project, and our ability to execute on them.

Our first priority over the next few months will be increasing our ticket sales.  We will attempt to do so using two tactics  - enlisting more help in selling tickets, and investigating online ticket sales. The latter will need a lot of thought and due-diligence before we can deliver it – But we look forward to make it happen.

Our second priority in 2012 will be to increase the number of restaurants we want to partner with - and give you all more options to choose from, when you buy an Eat2Feed ticket.  Gram Masala- in Seattle http://garamseattle.com/, has already expressed interest in joining our program and will be surely be a great addition to our efforts.

As the new year comes along - we are looking excitedly forward to expanding and improving the Eat2Feed program. We are also excited to begin working with new people who can help broaden our horizons over the long-term future.

Always remember to eat so you can feed.

Stay tuned - as we roll out updates!

Thanks

Manel Khan  - on behalf of the Eat2Feed team.

First Event Update

On Friday the 14^th of October – the Eat2Feed program held its first homeless food event in partnership with PeaceForTheStreets - a homeless youth support group in Seattle.The location for the event was at: 1814 Summit Avenue, Seattle, 98122, at 5.30pm, for a duration of 2 hours. MAPS IOC members present were: Tarek Dawood, Kazi Al-Rashid, Liza Kazi, Sadi Khan.

It was a resounding success for our first event. There were approximately 30 people in attendance in a variety of age brackets – with a high concentration of youth-aged folks. The event centered on providing a warm meal to homeless or needy youth in the Seattle region while providing a sit-down environment for the youth and MAPS IOC members to discuss and learn from one another. Not everyone who showed up was homeless - infact there were a number of individuals who came for their unique reasons (one youngster worked with Muslim teenagers, had heard about this event  and wanted to learn more - another came to clear her misconceptions about Islam)

Almost 2 hours later, to wrap-up the event we went around the room and spent a minute describing what we were taking away. It was both exciting hear closing comments such as, “we seem more alike than different”, “I felt educated”, and “it was great to learn about a new culture”

It was truly inspiring to be with open-minded, curious and genuine individuals with whom there was so much potential to share knowledge. The opportunities for further engagement with not just this group, but other like-minded groups are incredibly exciting.

Our Facebook page has also been updated with more photos: http://www.facebook.com/eat2feed  

Special thanks need to go out to the following people for helping making this happen:

·         Inchin’s Bamboo Garden : Yogesh and his partnership in helping develop and participate in this program.

·         Eat2Feed team members : for their hard-work and dedication to make this event possible.

·         MAPS : The Muslim Association of Puget Sound and their continued support.

Below are just a few photos to whet your appetite :)

Hello World !

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