Once again this harvest we are asking our families to help feed local people in crisis by collecting tinned and dried food for the Westminster Foodbank. The Foodbank provides short term emergency food to people in crisis. Food is given as an intervention strategy which allows care professionals, such as Church Pastoral Workers, Health Visitors, Social Services etc, time to put longer term measures in place. Food will be distributed at the Foodbank centre at Westminster Chapel on Buckingham Gate, where people are given enough food for 3 days as well as being signposted to organisations which can provide further assistance.
Some ideas of suitable items are below:
- Fruit Juice (Long-life Carton)
- Vegetables (Tinned)
- Fruit (Tinned)
- Sugar (250g or 500g)
- Milk (UHT or powdered)
- Tomatoes (Tinned)
- Rice Pudding (Tinned)
- Sponge Pudding (Tinned)
- Instant Mashed Potato
- Biscuits or snack bars
- Pasta Sauces (Jar)
- Soup (Tinned)
- Meat/Fish (Tinned)
- Rice/Pasta
- Jam
- Pulses (Tinned) e.g. kidney beans, lentils
- Tea Bags/instant coffee
- Cereals (not whole-wheat biscuits)
- Cooking oil (250ml)
We would really appreciate it if food could be brought into school this week and left on the window ledges in the hall. Thank you for your support.
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with
the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter – when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? … If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”
(Isaiah 58:6-7, 9b-10)
