It's bagging time

2 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ealing
Shami Hogarth
Madhan
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Ealing

Monday 4th March

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I joined Shami when she was folding the tissue papers with cutleries. Emma asked me to arrange the bags into groups of ten and tie them up, so that it would make their lives easier when they make the grocery bags in the next shift.

We ran out of bands to hold the bags together. We improvised and made ropes using torn plastic bags. After having tea, we moved all the snack bags to the front.

Shami was tasked with writing the menu of the day. She managed to use all the markers and we had a debate on how to spell Daal. Is it Dhal or Dhaal or Daal? Shami chose Dhall in the end.

By 5:40pm we covered all the setup. The food didn't arrive till 5:50pm. It was Daal and Rice today. Before the GoodGymers for the next shift arrives, I was helping out in the kitchen with the packaging.

Beat and Anuj arrived few minutes before the task time. They were placed on clothing sections. Once Kash showed up I handed over my food transport duty to her and left.


This task supported
Ealing Soup Kitchen
A faith-based Soup Kitchen that provides food, advocacy, & practical help for the vulnerable & homeless

Ealing Soup Kitchen is a registered charity set up to help the vulnerable and homeless in the area. Nine local churches support our faith-based Soup Kitchen, which has been running since 1973.

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Kash

Mon 4th Mar at 10:14pm

I'm surprised Daal didn't make it to the pun! 😄

Shami Hogarth

Tue 5th Mar at 2:17pm

Hard to believe after ordering that dish, I hesitated. Really thought Dhal was correct but even Emma has a different spelling in her post 😀

Shami Hogarth

Tue 5th Mar at 2:19pm

Definitely feeling the arms today after hauling out the big bags of donations from the storage cupboard! 💪🏾 It was a bit sad to see less donations for the snack bags I filled up, compared to a few weeks ago 😔

Madhan

Tue 5th Mar at 5:08pm

Missed the opportunity on the Pun. It didn't strike me then 😄

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