Hands Across the Water

Hands Across the Water is a unique charity that assists Thai orphans and their communities. Initially founded to assist the survivors of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami by former Sydney police Detective Peter Baines, Hands now support over 300 orphans and their communities at numerous locations—and have commited to support them for the long term.

Focus was asked to create a cookbook to raise money for the charity, as part of this long term commitment. Accepting the challenge, we pitched the concept of gathering 51 of Australia’s most prominent chefs in one book, offering their childhood memories of food and a recipe based on these memories. The book, named Hands Across the Kitchen was launched on October 27 2011 at a packed event at Hugo’s Lounge in Sydney, where Peter announced that the book had sold over 11,000 copies of the 20,000 printed.

Focus has taken great pride in being part of such a giving project, and we look forward to supporting Hands further in the future.

If you would like to purchase the book, it is now available at the Hands Across the Water website.

Published October 28th, 2011 by Eivind in Design, Work