Engaging the most vulnerable during the pandemic
HAND~ Food Connects
Our latest project HANDI and its activities are funded by National Lottery through its urgent response fund. Twice a week cooking sessions and workshops have been taking place online bringing women together. The sessions are hugely popular and much needed respite for women. We also have local chefs and experts who talked and chatted and shared their skills.
Food/recipe packs, along with recipe books and dry ingredients were distributed.
Weekend cooking session saw families coming together as well, and hot food was sent to the vulnerable and those isolating.
Women in the sessions took lead and shared their family recipes and cooking secrets. Most importantly, everybody participated and chatted in ‘safe space’. We all discussed lockdown and ways to cope with the stress and anxiety caused. Ways to keep safe were discussed , message were reiterated in different languages li’ Urdu, Punjabi and Gujarati other than English.
Food connects and it is so true for our HANDI project.
