Merrill J. Fernando with his sons owners Dilmah Tea Estate in Sri Lanka
As a promise to Hema Abeygunawardena who died of breast cancer and instrumental in establishing multicultural breast cancer groups in Toronto, The Art of Tea is to help women in Sri Lanka who have breast cancer.
THE ART OF TEA
Explore the sensual tastes of tea with food
Guest Speakers: Jane Pettigrew, tea expert from England; Bruce Bell, Toronto Historian
Special guests: Merrill J. & Dilhan Fernando, owners Dilmah Tea Estate in Sri Lanka
JUNE 18th 2011
at St Lawrence Town Hall, Grand Ballroom
(King & Jarvis) 157 King St East
11:30 am to 3:00 pm Tea, Food Pairings, social history of Tea in the past and into the 21st century. Tea displays.
Not a nut or gluten free event.
Door Prize food basket donated by Elco Fine Foods Inc.
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Proceeds donated to MJF Charitable Foundation in memory of Hema Abeygunawardena who died of breast cancer in 2007 and who was instrumental in advocating breast healthcare for immigrant women in Toronto, Canada.
Monies from event to be donated to MFJ Foundation, http://www.mjffoundation.org founded by Merrill Fernando founder & president.
MJF Charitable Foundation
empowers individuals, families, and whole communities to help themselves.
Childcare developments, healthcare, education of tea workers first doctor, small entrepreneur program, prison reform program, enabling disabled in jobs, -result of land mines, women’s empowerment, supplied first mammogram and ultrasound machine , home for elderly with no family for support or shelter., Dilmah conservation protection of environment that includes protecting land, species and even minority communities
After water, tea is the most popular beverage in the world. Pleasure, rituals, health benefits.
Merrill trained as Sri Lanka’s first tea taster and realized that for independent Ceylon in 1948 that the workers needed to benefit from their own product and marketing rather in the hands of foreign middleman. Merrill launched his own brand of Ceylon Tea in 1988 tea grown, handpicked and manufactured in Ceylon.
