These are three of some 25 events that Oon has put together for her Empowering Lives: Food For Good initiative to raise funds for the Community Chest , celebrating its 40th year in 2023. The events will run till March 2024, and more are expected to be added.
“We are grateful that many partners – chefs, hotels and celebrities – have come on board to use their culinary skills to do good and raise funds as part of Community Chest’s 40th anniversary.”“Raising money is not easy, but we create feel-good feelings through our food events,” she says. “I’m heartened by how our food and beverage community has responded.”
Oon adds: “I thought I would throw it out there – cook dinner for a group of 10 at my home, for a $20,000 donation. And someone has donated. We are working out the date for the dinner.”to good use in her workshop on Oct 29 at One Farrer Hotel. Thirteen participants are caregivers whom donors have sponsored to attend the session. There are seven seats left for members of the public, who can register their interest by sending an e-mail toKoh, 64, says she cried when told that caregivers would be attending her session. For about a decade, she was caregiver to her mother, who had Parkinson’s disease. Her mother died in 2022 at the age of 89.
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