Feeding a Community in Crisis

At Gastown's Wildebeest restaurant, Ian McHale, left, and Stu Angel, right, prepare meals for Oppenheimer Park, the Dugout Drop-In Centre and other community food programs as part of the Food Coalition, a program initiated during the pandemic by Chambar owners Karri Green-Schuermans and Nico Schuermans. PHOTOS BY KSENIA DEMPSTER, BRITNEY GILL, KATIE JAMESON AND JONATHAN NORTON.
The Belgard Kitchen and Havana restaurants were among the first to join forces with Say Mercy's Antonio Cayonne, Sean Reeve and Andrew Jameson, left to right, to provide food for Vancouver's frontline workers and food insecure.
Nico Schuermans, shown top right cooking at his restaurant, Chambar, also provides take-home meals and healthy meals that are donated through the Food Coalition.
Staff meal at The Belgrade Kitchen