Limited Seats Still Available at Six Restaurants for This Year's Chi Fan for Charity

This is your last chance to snag a ticket for this year's Chi Fan for Charity (CFFC), held at 65 restaurants across town on Saturday, November 5. Now in its eighth year, CFFC has raised over RMB 4 million for charitable causes to date, with 100 percent of proceeds going to beneficiaries.

The CFFC team have just announced that there are still a few seats available at the following restaurants:

29 Grill, Conrad Beijing (hosted by Steven Schwankert)
Great Leap Brewing #45 Brewpub (hosted by Nicole Washko)
Jing, Peninsula Beijing (hosted by Hedvig Wibskov)
Karaiya
Punjabi (hosted by Gireesh Chowdhury)
The Local (hosted by Jeremiah Jenne)

All tickets include a minimum three-course meal with drink pairings (although many restaurants go far beyond this) and entry to the free-flow after party held at swanky Mercedes Me. My top picks would be Karaiya or The Local – both serving great food and within walking, or more likely, stumbling – distance of the after party. You can book and pay for the seats at the table of your choice through the EventBank platform.

This year's beneficiaries, announced back in July, are The Starfish Project and Dandelion School. Earlier this year, Steven Schwankert described the two beneficiaries as thus:

"Starfish Project is a non-profit organization with a social enterprise that restores hope for trafficked and exploited women. Starfish Project provides these women and their children with shelter, counseling, access to healthcare, educational opportunities, child education grants, and vocational training. Additionally, they provide full-time employment in our social enterprise jewelry company, where women can use the skills they have learned to provide for themselves and their families. Through their holistic care programs and vocational opportunities they have seen women with little to no education gain the skills to become graphic designers, accountants, photographers, and managers.

The second organization, Dandelion School, works with migrant workers' children. Migrant workers contribute to everyone's daily life on Beijing. However, children from low-income migrant families are not eligible for middle school education in the city. So Dandelion School began in 2005 to serve as a local non-profit organization and provide access to quality education to migrant children. However, after 10 years, the worn-out classrooms and dormitories are dangerous for accommodating close to 700 students and staff. The new campus project will help Dandelion School to build a safe and durable campus and ensure the school's development in the long run. Although Dandelion students are from low-income migrant families, we believe they deserve quality education and durable classrooms, just like every other student in Beijing."

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