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Thursday, 13 October 2011

Dine It Forward

Dine It Forward is a series of fundraising events for Palmera Projects.  I had the pleasure of taking part in the first Dine It Forward in a series of special meals. Rubin from Palmera Projects informed us that the idea of Dine It Forward is to bring groups of friends together over a Sri Lankan style meal. Sri Lankan style food is not very well known in Sydney, so the purpose was two fold to make people aware of Sri Lankan food and raise money for the Palmera Projects.
Palmera Projects is totally run by some very dedicated volunteers, most of whom I met on the night. I was very inspired by their passion. The projects they run are to help people in Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Indigenous Australians.  Their mission is to develop an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to humanitarian aid to promote health, education and income creating initiatives to marginalised communities in Australia and Asia. Dine It Forward's focus is to raise money for the Rice Mill Project. A rice mill processes raw rice into edible rice. The project will be directed towards specifically selected beneficiaries, primarily women in the community, who will be provided with a combination of a grant and loan to establish, train and begin operation of the rice mill. The mill will be located in Manthai West region of Mannar.