On Sunday, September 25 the Community Engagement Office organized 2 community cooking events. CEU students and staff prepared meals for refugees at the Caritas Community Kitchen at Kulturhaus Brotfabrik in Vienna, while other staff members and CEU Socrates Project alumni volunteers prepared and served lunch to visitors for a donation collected by DEVISZONT NGO at Szimpla Farmers' Market in Budapest.
On the 2 sites altogether 30 volunteers peeled and chopped almost 90 kilos of veggies, cooked 250 portions of hot meals and baked 200 pieces of desserts.
In Vienna, the prepared meals were delivered to Kilmaoase, while in Budapest the leftover food was donated to a homeless shelter run by Oltalom Charity Association.
What started as a cloudy day in both cities, was filled with food, conversations about global cultural practices and customs around food, and new idea generation for civic engagement projects!
You can check a short reel of the day in Vienna here, and the photos of the Budapest cooking here.