ETCHED Immersive Gala Celebrates Women-Led Regenerative Agriculture in Africa
COSTA MESA, CA, UNITED STATES, August 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Alabaster International will host ETCHED: An Immersive Gala Experience Sept. 12 at Serendipity Labs Costa Mesa, the gala’s venue sponsor, immersing guests in East African culture and tradition while raising funds to expand the nonprofit’s work with indigenous food-security crops such as enset.
Known as the “Tree Against Hunger,” enset has sustained more than 20 million people in Ethiopia for generations, providing a resilient source of food through drought, famine, and conflict when conventional crops often fail. Indigenous women farmers have long cultivated enset and passed down the agricultural knowledge that has sustained communities across Ethiopia.
Alabaster International founder and CEO Shannon Fernando-Rubera is a global humanitarian, family nurse practitioner, and TEDx speaker known for going where others won’t. Her frontline medical work in remote and conflict-affected communities reshaped her understanding of healthcare, showing her that hunger, access to water, livelihoods, and health are deeply connected.