Local businessman sending culturally sensitive food baskets to Syrian refugees
Posted January 21, 2016 2:20 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS 1130) – A local businessman is taking a unique approach to helping make Syrian refugees in Surrey feel welcome.
The president of grocery store chain Fruiticana is donating culturally sensitive food baskets to families.
Tony Singh remembers when he first arrived in Canada back in 1975 at the age of 10.
“You don’t know the language, don’t know the food, where to go, where to go shopping, what kind of food they’re going to like… I remember taking the first bite of pizza. It was not tasty because that’s not the food I was used to.”
“I came in September. It was cold,” he remembers. “Vancouver is cold today… I can pretty much put myself 40 years ago and [imagine] what they’re feeling today.”
He’s hoping his gesture will help encourage others to help in whatever way they can.
