A team of volunteers have been packing food parcels to send out to families in need across Gedling borough this half term.
The charity Sewa Day Nottingham teamed up with Communities Working Together to pack food parcels for 162 children earlier this week to distribute to 70 Nottinghamshire families for February Half Term.
The charity say many of these packs will be destined for poorer families in Gedling borough.
Each pack contains breakfast items, long life milk, tinned fruit and vegetables, pulses, soup, pasta, rice and two reusable face masks. Fresh fruit will also be added next week, when they are to be delivered by 11 volunteers.
The work was carried out by volunteers ranging from 11 to 60 years old earlier this week and took most part of a day to complete.
Hetvi Parekh, Sewa Day Nottingham co-ordinator said “We are all really tired now, however it was such a satisfying day. Thank you to all our brilliant donors including Morrisons Gamston, Tiger Community Enterprise CIC for the face masks and bags, Fareshare, Fruit Basket, Bradbury’s of Ravenshead, Hindu Temple Nottingham for the space and the volunteers who made this possible, Team CWT, Team Sewa Day, Malti Maini, Rani Korpal and West Bridgford Community Helpers working together to make a massive impact in our local community”.
“Team work truly does make the dream work.”
Please contact Sewa Day or Communities Working Together if you would like to get involved or help us sustain our projects;
Sewa Day Nottingham is a non-profit and volunteer run organisation, and operates a community kitchen at Hindu Temple Nottingham and Sai Dham which cooks around 350 meals a week for homeless people, students and any other vulnerable people who need help
