FOOD FOR LIFE
Update by Tina Savani, Food for Life Volunteer
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s the lockdown has slowly eased, there has been an increased demand for free nutritional meals and drinks in the city of London. The Food for Life (FFL) team proudly continued in their unflinching service to feed the homeless freshly cooked nutritional prasadam, snacks and drinks as well as any other essential items, six days a week from Monday to Saturday. Many people have contributed to the successful operation of the service during the pandemic including the front-line volunteers, the coordinators who have looked after the purchase of items, kept a tab on stock, ensured the service runs smoothly, recruited and retained volunteers, carried out marketing activities and resolved any issues. The generous donors who have donated money or items have been extremely useful, and of course last but not least, Parasurama dasa and the Food for All (FFA) team have been exceedingly helpful and accommodating by providing their premises, kitchen, ingredients, appliances and anything else the team may need to operate, without which the FFL service would not be possible. In recent developments, the FFL team have created health and safety videos with the help of Olivia Schubert from the FFA team to guide new volunteers and provide useful information about the service, kitchen facilities, safe use of appliances and all other aspects of health and safety. Other videos such as how to offer prasadam, information about parking restrictions, maintaining cleanliness of the van, PPE equipment, have also been created by Acutya Charan dasa and Krishna Kanta devi dasi. Many new drivers and front-line volunteers have come on board in the last couple of months, namely Amit Vyas, Dharmesh Modi, Dipak Sapat, Parijat Sinha, Sahil Dodhia and Sanjay Gohil, who have all very kindly stepped in when there was a real need for drivers or volunteers.
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