Sunday, July 05, 2020

Corona Chronicles - Reviewing lockdown!


#dagenham88 are on it. Great to be with teammates on Foodbank duties. 

We might do a training run which will involve picking up food parcels and running to drop them off at local homeless hostels.

The Hedgecock Community Centre is an inclusive initiative.

We welcome anyone and everyone to volunteer and we serve everyone and anyone.  We steer clear of politics.

Today we discussed future plans and outlined what we are already doing in term of operations.

- Foodbank deliveries to the vulnerable, isolating, shielding.
- Hosting Foodbank collections.
- Volunteers packing and welcoming visitors.
- Hot food distribution
- Serving hot, cold, ready foodstuffs to homeless hostels.
- Networking with local refugee hostels and support organisations.
- Outreach food programme with rough sleepers.
- Teaming up with #hospitalityagainsthomelessness
- Weekday outreach programme with food parcel drops to residents who are elderly, disabled and who live with mental health.
- Networking with local support groups - An excellent initiative co-ordinated by Humdum UK and Nighat.

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