Cooking as Community Care with Ashvina Locked Down, Speaking Up!

Growing up in Melbourne’s multicultural south-east, Ashvina De Zoysa (she/her) just assumed that would mean the area had support services tailored to CALD people. As she got older she realised this wasn’t the case, so when COVID hit she knew she wanted to do something to support her community. Fast forward to now and Ashvina has provided several meals to her local CALD community through her initiative COOK4CALD. Ashvina shares her advice if you want to start something similar, and why supporting the community where you grew up just hits different.
 
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Mentioned in this episode:
COOK4CALD: Cook4CALD.org
 
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