Muscat’s top hotels unite for World Food Day, donating over 200 food boxes to Oman Food Bank

Muscat’s top hotels unite for World Food Day, donating over 200 food boxes to Oman Food Bank

Muscat: Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, has once again teamed up with a group of Muscat’s most prominent hotels to mark World Food Day, celebrated annually on 16th October. In keeping with the United Nations’ #ZeroHunger and healthy eating theme, the resorts’ Ladies and Gentlemen joined over 120 volunteers from Shangri-la Barr Al Jissah, Muscat, Kempinski Hotel Muscat, Sheraton Oman Hotel and W Muscat in a food cart race at LuLu Hypermarket in Darsait.

With a total fundraising from all hotels equally divided, the teams raced through the store to fill their carts with as much food as possible in 10 minutes. Over 200 boxes were then packed and donated to Oman Food Bank Charity Association, which caters to the underprivileged families in the Sultanate. In its fourth annual edition this year, the teams managed to raise a grand total of OMR 4328, where Kempinski Hotel Muscat contributed 1116 OMR, followed by 1064 OMR from Sheraton Oman Hotel, which were collected through a series of charitable initiatives including flea markets, ice cream and popcorn corners and salary contributions.

Nabil Al Zadjali, General Manager of Al Bustan Palace said “Helping families in our community is a cause that is very near and