Winnipeg charities and businesses are opening their doors to the community for annual holiday feasts.
Agape Table held its Christmas Eve morning meal Wednesday and fed hundreds of people.
Almost all of the food was donated and it was prepared and served by volunteers.
400 guests enjoyed the meal of turkey with all the trimmings.
Chef Ben Kramer from the University of Winnipeg’s Diversity Foods prepared the 35 turkey’s in commercial ovens, a task that normally takes Agape Table weeks to do on its own.
Between noon and 2:00 p.m. Siloam Mission served up Christmas Dinner for about 600 people experiencing homelessness and poverty.
128 volunteers pitched in for kitchen and serving duties and even provided their hungry guests with pre and post meal entertainment.
And The Sons of Italy hosted a meal in the West End where they were expecting to serve about 400 people.
“It’s all about giving to inner-city families, new immigrants to Winnipeg who don’t have support, they don’t have family here,” said Tat-Liang Fabio Cheam.
The event, in its ninth year, is co-sponsored by the West End Biz and Sorrento’s.
