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Oakville Family Ribfest is the name of an annual ribfest food festival held at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. The Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar (RCOT) organizes the three-day long Ribfest to raise money for charity. This free admission event has live entertainment and KidZone activites. This non profit volunteer run ribfest is the largest annual public event in Oakville with attendance of more then 30,000 visitors.

Charitable fundraising
All the Ribfest proceeds go to support local Rotary projects, student bursaries and community charities, as well as international works such as polio vaccinations, wells to provide clean water and mosquito nets to prevent the spread of malaria.

This is some of them:
 * Annual Strawberry Social (for elderly shut-ins and their caregivers)
 * Kerr Street Ministries Food Bank
 * Oakville Fare Share Food Bank
 * Oakville Hospital
 * Oakville high school student bursaries
 * Children’s Aid Foundation of Halton
 * international projects such as Sleeping Children around the World
 * Haiti Containers for Hope Fund
 * Stephen Lewis Foundation for Aids
 * Polio Plus to eradicate polio in the world

History
Founded in 2012 with assistance from Ontario Trillium Foundation.