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UST Global Yummy Aid 2014 Showcases Teechie’s Culinary Skills

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TechnoparkToday.com(Aug, 2014): Yummy Aid is back! Employees at UST Global’s Thiruvananthapuram Technopark Center came together today again to showcase their culinary skills at ‘Yummy Aid 2014’. The proceeds from this event would be donated for a noble cause.

The Yummy Aid 2014 food festival is organized by UST Global’s NowU (Network of Women Ussociates), which is an internal volunteer organization that spearheads the development and executive mentoring activities for UST Global’s women USsociates. This event had 30+ teams of enthusiastic men and women vying for the top honors in cooking.

Yummy Aid 2014 witnessed multicuisine dishes being prepared and served aesthetically, and the best ones walked away with the prizes. Lekshmi Nair, celebrity culinary expert, television host and the Principal of The Kerala Law Academy, picked the winners.

The event started with delivery leaders inaugurating the event with fun competitions like ‘Banana Splits’. A variety of interestingly named food stalls were open all through the day, serving a varitey of cusines – from local to continental.

Elaborating on the unique food festival organized at the atrium of the Bhavani building of Thiruvananthapuram Technopark, Hema Menon, Center Head, Trivandrum, said, “Yummy Aid is a celebration of the culinary skills of UST Global employees. This annual food festival, organized by NowU (Network of Women USsociates), brings together all USsociates in Thiruvananthapuram, irrespective of gender and age, to serve for a bigger cause for the community. Each participant does his / her share for giving back to the community by creating yummy food, while having loads of fun. Every year more and more teams participate in Yummy Aid and this year was no different”.

Yummy Aid 2014 also had various games stalls and fun-filled spaced with spot competitions such as –‘Guess the spices: Blindfolded’, ‘Lemon in the basket’ etc.

Right from the time Yummy Aid started, the proceeds have gone towards charity/community activities. Last year the team donated INR 1 Lakh to Prathibha Poshini, an initiative by a group of senior citizens of Trivandrum to nurture young minds.

About Yummy Aid

The annual food festival conducted by UST Global’s NowU, is the biggest gourmet event of the year at UST Global & Technopark. It lets UST Global employees have fun at work, showcase their culinary talent and contribute to a noble cause. Employees voluntarily form teams and on the Yummy Aid event day they create dishes which are evaluated by a celebrity / panel of celebrities. The dishes are sold and a major part of the proceeds is donated to charity.

       

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