Family Foodbank MK

Wini1960

Hi my family and I started a foodbank in May of this year and we are totally overwhelmed by the response week in and week out. I retired 8 years ago after working at the ICAEW for 21 years. I love helping people, my husband and children pack the parcels and volunteers drop the parcels at the various homes. As i have mobility issues i just get names and addresses and liaise with the main foodbank, MK Foodbank in Kiln Farm. I find that i do not focus so much on my disabilities but on the task at hand. I still have pain but doing something, rather than doing nothing makes life worthwhile ??

Duninn

@Wini1960 -  you’re somebody’s hero!  ?

janer1967

Hi there 

That's a wonderful thing you and your family are doing for others in need 

I agree it helps take your mind off your own problems and pain when you are busy and feeling proud you are doing something and helping others 

Keep up the good work 

Lisatho11987777

@woodbine where I live food banks have been used on a weekly basis way before corona virus its three times worse now it is classed as a poor place in the main parts many are living in poverty the pandemic has made things worse and when the uplift is taken off life is going to be alot hard notification has been put on the universal journal that its soon comeing to an end 

Cher_Alumni

Hi @Wini1960 It's lovely to see you again on our community and what a brilliant, selfless job you are doing.  I'm sure it makes all the difference to the people you are helping and it sounds like it motivates you too.  Thanks for telling us about it 

Wini1960

Thank you so much everyone. It is a shame that foodbanks are necessary but the government alone cannot sort out this mess we all have to do our part great or small.

Wini1960

@woodbine I choose to think and see what i can do. We can all moan about what the government is not doing, but that is not going to bring about  change. We all have a part to play to make "our world" a better place. If I'm not in a good mood or the pain I'm in is too much, watching the news where they talk about the pandemic only makes our fears, anxieties and the like worse. I choose, because it is a choice to focus on what I can do to help my Neighbours in MK instead of focusing on the negative. I believe my life would be far richer and rewarding when i focus on the positives in life.

Lisatho11987777

The government need to live the live people live in poverty without their posh cars and private jets and boats and posh hotels and holidays all comeing out the tax payers money 

I remember one mp liveing on benefits for a week that's nothing they need to try it for a whole year