Harper Adams students' tasty treats celebrate World Food Day
[gallery] Tasty treats from every corner of the globe were dished out to hungry students at Harper Adams University.
The university's contingent of international students slaved over hot stoves to make signature dishes from their home countries, including India, China, Kurdistan, Australia and Sri Lanka.
Staff also got involved in World Food Day by bringing a taste of the UK to the event with their home-baked cupcakes.
The trays of pasties, samosas, buns, biscuits, sweets and other foods then went on sale at the university's Regional Food Academy yesterday.
More than 200 students browsed the stalls before carefully selecting their lunch.
African drummer Henry Keil created a carnival atmosphere with his band.
More than £500 was raised by selling food in just an hour and a half. It will go to Self Help Africa Shrewsbury, a charity that works with rural communities in Africa to help them improve their farms and their livelihoods.
Harper Adams, in Edgmond, near Newport, has students from about 30 countries.
Course leader Simon Keeble, who organised the event, said: "I'm amazed the event at Harper Adams has been such a success with so many people turning out to support it.
"It was so good to see so many people from different nationalities based at Harper Adams being involved in this special day."
Joanne Darlington, business development manager UK at Self Help Africa Shrewsbury, said: "It's fantastic so many staff and students have supported the event at Harper Adams. Their donations will support our work in Africa to help smallholder farmers to produce enough food to feed themselves and earn a living."
World Food Day marks the anniversary of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in 1945.
