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Excess fruit and veg
Skylarks
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in Fruit & veg
This weekend a local pensioner asked for help on Facebook. She didn’t have any food or money left for food. She has mobility problems so she has to pay for a taxi each week to collect her pension and pay her bills. She then needs to get a taxi to the shops to buy food for her and her dog. It doesn’t really leave her much money for basic food essentials. With the panic buying, she has struggled even more to buy the essentials.
This lady only just manages to use Facebook and doesn’t know how to find private messages people have sent her offering help. She ended up posting her home address on Facebook which lots of people pointed out she shouldn’t do. Admin did initially remove her posts with her address. However, in the end they left it on because they worked out she didn’t know how to access her PMs.
She did get some essentials to tide her over.
It has got me to think more about what we can do to help her and others in similar situations. I’m talking long term, not just during the the current crisis. For anyone who grows fruit or veg and if you have an excess of fruit and veg, instead of giving to to family, friends or neighbours who have plenty of food, how about finding a local family, pensioner or any other vulnerable person and ask them if they would like some fruit or veg.
Some people are proud and don’t like to ask for help or going to food banks. Offering your excess fruit and veg grown from your garden might not make some feel like they are a charity case. Plus it’s very likely these people get very little nutritious food and fresh food will really help them.
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I noticed a house last year and they had crates of apples from their tree on their grass verge by the road. A big sign. "Free. Help yourself."
That’s a great way of raising money for charity.