Our own Chef Ghazi shared the top prize at the Taste of Montpelier Food Festival. His catering company, Ghazi’s Goodies, had a booth at the festival where he and his partner Sarah Lipton served deserts to a long line of customers. The booth was decorated with the Tunisian flag and Ghazi wore traditional dress. CVRAN …

On August 7th about 70 generous community members and friends of CVRAN gathered to help raise funds for a 700 student primary and middle school in the region of North Darfur, Sudan. The event was organized by Eltayeb Awadalla, owner of Mobitech in Montpelier. Eltayeb grew up in the small village of Kamo in North …

Many CVRAN volunteers heeded the call to help an asylum seeking family paint their new apartment in early July. A total of 18 people volunteered for hours over 4 days recently. We painted doors, windows, walls, and hard to reach vaulted ceilings. A few volunteers had never painted before and still they showed up. Several …