CMGT Iftar Ramadan with Zero Food Waste Challenge

The first CMGT Iftar Ramadan at Downtown Islamic Center was held on May 13-14, 2019. Nearly 275 people attended over the two nights. We are proud of everyone involved in making it successful, including our amazing volunteers who helped us prepare and wrap up the event.

Our promo flyers and picture with our volunteers

We greatly appreciate our sponsors:

Downtown Islamic Center for the venue, drinking water, snacks, and kitchen crews.
Rawabi Grill and Baba Pita Restaurants for delicious iftar meals.
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum for eco-friendly food containers, cups, and wood sporks.
Trader Joe’s for paper bags.
Collective Resources for composting service.

We also thank our attendees who supported our “Zero Food Waste” challenge and helped us with the composting process.

At the end of the event, we diverted 45.7 pounds total of food waste, biodegradable food containers, cups, and utensils from the landfill.

“Zero Food Waste” challenge, composting process and the result

We received great feedback from attendees on how to make our event more eco-friendly by avoiding the use of styrofoam, plastic water bottles, and to use less paper products.

We will gladly continue to learn from each other to improve our eco-friendly lifestyle and to promote the concept of Green Ramadan and Green Mosques by organizing family friendly programs for our faith-based and interfaith communities.

Pictures of our Team Leaders giving speeches, our young volunteers activities, kitchen crews and attendees

Sharing info and having a good discussion with attendees

Our Team Leaders with attendees, volunteers and DIC kitchen crews

Pictures by: Khawlah Hammad, Emelda (Imane) Lawson Bekkal, Amal Bekkal, Caroline Williams, Tasneem Sulong, Ayad Albakri, Asif Shaikh, Rozan Alshurafa, and Zulfikar idrus.