Cooking with Care at Grenzenlos

MU students and staff put their hospitality skills to the test on Saturday night as they cooked up a storm at a fundraising event for charity partner Grenzenlos Kochen. Our team of ten volunteers joined others in a grand cook-off to raise money for the organization, dedicated to assisting asylum-seekers in Austria.

The theme of the evening being “From Kabul to Istanbul”, our intrepid epicureans tried their hands at a Persian rice cake with tomatoes and chicken, Bademjun (Persian stuffed eggplant) and an Armenian cheese pastry, sou berag. Once the dishes were unveiled and the volunteers had tasted the fruits of their labours, the student group decided to make a donation out of their own pockets and buy an art-chair painted by one of the residents of the asylum-seekers home. A great addition to the MU student lounge!

The MU Cares community outreach program (which provides volunteering opportunities for our students) and Grenzenlos Kochen have a running cooperation – last May we donated 1000 Euros raised at the MU International Day which were used to fund German language classes for new arrivals and to purchase equipment for Grenzenlos’ sport program. We certainly look forward to continuing to work together and wish their community the best.

More pictures of the event can be found on our Facebook page.