Feeding the vulnerable during the pandemic

 
 

a New service to the vulnerable to replace our lunch clubs

Our regular lunch clubs have been cancelled during the pandemic, leaving the elderly and people shielding in total isolation. But thanks to the Scottish Government , Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education and Faith in Community Dundee for their funding, we have been able to provide lunch delivery to 26+ people on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Each meal has two portions to make sure that everyone has at least one warm and nutritious meal every day! On top of that, we were delivering groceries that they need, to avoid our vulnerable from having to go out during this time.

A growing List of local supporters

We have received a lot of food donation from local organization. For example, in June, we received a lot of potatoes, carrots, swedes, kale and onions from Link Up Whitfield who kindly donated their extra produce to us! We managed to reuse the paper bags to serve our lunches. These donation really helped in providing for more people and they have made many more happy elderly and vulnerable ! Thank you for thinking of us and delivering the produce to our Centre!

We have also been receiving weekly produce from Intelligent Growth Solutions for our cooking! Check out this wee article they put up on their page about our collaboration to learn more about how they work and photos from our first visit to see their work.

Huge thanks to IGS for the produce and Faith in Community Dundee for putting us in touch with them in the first place!

Local Celebrities

Our project featured in the news at several occasion, showing the importance of looking after our local community.

We were first interviewed in May by That’s TV Scotland just before we started our Lunch Club Project and we're glad that since then, we've had two more funders, many well-wishers and people donating to our cause and we've had all our spaces filled for lunches.

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In July, STV news did a feature on Intelligent Growth Solutions and interviewed some of our staff members to get word out about our project! Check the video here

Our very supportive local newspaper The Courier also wrote a featured article about the project that you can read here.

thank you everyone!

This project would have never happened without the help from many funders, organizations and individuals.

Funding

  • Scottish Government

  • Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education

  • Faith in the Community

We would like to thank Jacky Close from Faith in the community who directed us to Al-Maktoum and to other food banks at the start of the project.


Main Food Donation Provider

  • The Maxwell Centre

  • The Eagles Wings Trust

  • The Perth Road Community Fridge (by Gate Church)

  • Salvation Army Dundee

  • Link Up Whitfield.

  • Intelligent Growth Solutions

We are continuing to get food donations from other community groups and individuals and all these donations are very appreciated.

Dudhope Multicultural Centre volunteers

Pratima and Sohini Mukhopadhyay (Project co-coordinators)

Shweta Jariwala (Cook)

Munira Akter (Cook)

Jura Kazancevas (Delivery driver)