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 

woodbine

It's a great thing that you are doing @Wini1960 , but such a shame that in 2021 in the midst of a pandemic that there is any need for foodbanks, politician should hang their heads in shame.

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.

woodbine

Wini1960 said:

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.

Actually there is quite a lot the govt. can do, they could increase benefits to a level where people could afford a basic standard of living instead of living in poverty, they could increase the "living" wage to a decent level so people could live off their earnings. The list of things the govt could do if they were minded to is a long list.
I know that foodbanks are nothing new, but when over a million people rely on them it's become a problem and a national disgrace.
And of course the problem is about to get worse when they remove the £20 UC uplift, and yet they can afford £200 million for a new "yatch" for Boris to sail around in ?

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.

woodbine

@Wini1960 I think you might have misunderstood what I was trying to say, which in a nutshell was that the one and only blame has been "austerity", and that has been the choice of this govt. to make the poor pay for the mistakes of the rich, it is unfair and unjust.

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 

woodbine

@lisathomas50 i'm pretty certain that tax payers don't pay for MP's "holidays".