Helping VoH's potatoes to breathe
2 Goodgymers helped their local community in Kingston upon Thames
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Monday 13th July 2020
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Voices of Hope is a Kingston based charity that cook meals for the vulnerable, and distribute boxes of ingredients to local families with young children, to encourage them to cook meals from scratch.
This Monday Sam and I turned up to help. We carried boxes of various items of food upstairs (okay, fine, we did use the lift, but we used it very efficiently and helped them to save time!). We were then asked to open bags containing 108kg worth of new potatoes and distribute them into open boxes so that could be left to breathe before being cooked.
Before leaving we couldn't miss the chance to chop up some bell peppers and portobello mushrooms, too.
VoH are struggling for volunteers now that more people are going back to work, and it felt good to be able to help them, even if only a little!
This task supported
To restore and rebuild hope in individuals, improving their physical and mental health through undertaking community-based projects.
In the midst of the current crisis we shall continue to seek to be a voice of hope to all. We are working closely with Kingston Council and Kingston Voluntary Action. We have been designated responsibility as a central food distribution point for the whole of Kingston borough, with the aim of providing support to the most vulnerable in our community including the homeless, the isolated and those whose income is inadequate to meet their daily needs. We shall be undertaking this for a 12-week period starting on Monday 12th March. Practically, this means: - preparing thousands of hot meals for those unable to do so (10,000 to date!) - preparing packages of essential foodstuffs and basic aid for those who most need them - providing a delivery service to as many of the 18,000 people aged 70+ in Kingston as possible
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