Betinho

                                                                                   The Betinho Community Bake Oven

The Betinho Project is being launched by the building of a Community Bake Oven which will be dedicated to Betinho. The Bake Oven will be constructed as part of The Stop Community Food Centre's Green Barn initiative at the former TTC car barns in the Christie/St. Clair neighbourhood. The Green Barn will include the community bake oven, a greenhouse, community gardens, and food systems educational programming.

This will be a very fitting setting in which to celebrate Betinho's life and work, as the Green Barn has many goals that correspond closely to Betinho's own values.

The Green Barn will:

- cultivate community awareness of food and its connection with the environment, health and social justice
- provide learning opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds
- increase access to healthy, locally produced food
- create a public gathering space centred around food, respecting and celebrating the diversity of the neighbourhood

Members of the Betinho Project feel proud of Canada's role in Betinho's life, and honoured that he chose Toronto as the environment in which he felt safe to continue developing his work.