Eating for Ethiopia

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The Happietaria, the temporary restaurant where the guest determines the dinner price himself, has recently opened its doors. All tips together will amount to a couple of tens of thousands of guilders and this year go to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Why Ethiopia? 'In the region war is still raging on a number of fronts. Especially in the Sudan, where many of the refugees in Ethiopia come from. But

The Happietaria, the temporary restaurant where the guest determines the dinner price himself, has recently opened its doors. All tips together will amount to a couple of tens of thousands of guilders and this year go to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.

Why Ethiopia? 'In the region war is still raging on a number of fronts. Especially in the Sudan, where many of the refugees in Ethiopia come from. But those wars have gone on for so long that they are no longer news', according to Renze Keuning, spokesperson for the Happietaria Enschede.

Maarten van Zalk, chairman of the organising committee adds: 'The refugees are dependent on the daily hand of rice they are given. Something should be done. They should get the chance to make their own living.'

The money that the Enschede action will bring in goes somewhere very specific. Keuning: 'It does not just go to Ethiopia. ZOA-refugee-care will help 15,000 refugees in Sherkole directly. They will teach them to be self-sufficient: building houses, learning, working, but also teaching them modern enterpreneurial skills.'

The Happietaria puts Ethiopia back on the map and emphasises this by putting an Ethiopian dish on the menu, called injera, 'a kind of pancake with sauce'. A traditional dish according to Keuning: 'Boerenkool is to the Netherlands what injera is to Ethiopia.'

For more information: www.happietaria.nl/enschede/

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