Food for Thought 引人深思
Noel Cunningham is the founder and owner of Strings restaurant in Denver, a popular destination for locals and out-of-towners alike. Having moved to the United States in the mid-'70s, he considers the restaurant a way to earn a living and a vehicle to help others.
Cunningham has served on the board of Share Our Strength, an organization of restaurateurs that helps the hungry worldwide. Along with his wife, Tammy, he also founded the Cunningham Foundation in 2003 to raise and distribute money to assist with education and community development in Ethiopia.
Why Ethiopia? "In 1984," he said, "when I was a chef at a posh private dining club in Los Angeles, I was distraught when the owners refused to hold a benefit for victims of a tragic famine in Ethiopia. I vowed that if I ever owned a restaurant, I would never withhold the ability to support important causes." He started a program called Quarters for Kids, which encourages the 225,000 high school students in Colorado to forgo a soda or candy bar for a day and give the dollar it would cost to the program.
"In Ethiopia," Cunningham stresses, "a quarter will buy breakfast, a quarter will buy lunch, and fifty cents will help pay for a school uniform and shoes." Every year, he takes six Colorado students (chosen randomly from all donors) on a trip to Ethiopia to experience firsthand the difference their efforts are making.
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