Comments on: Bow Food Bank Portraits https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Johnny https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1236326 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 19:37:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1236326 I’ve lived across from the church for the past thirty years.I only learned of the foodbank a couple of years ago when a man my own age enquired what time it was opening as I left my flat.
He said he needed food for his kids. I’ve never forgotten the anguish in his face. You are all local heroes.

]]> By: Shamin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1203827 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:03:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1203827 Honestly nice to see you all of humble and comprehensive hearted people and thanks to all for yours human being cooperation.

Shamin, Volunteer, Bow Foodbank

]]> By: Michael Cubey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1203378 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:52:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1203378 Thank you for this profile and portraits of our fantastic volunteers. They do amazing work week in and week out. Our foodbank is entirely volunteer led and we just wouldn’t be able to exist without the giving of time and effort of all these individuals.
Michael, Chair, Bow Foodbank

]]> By: Milo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1202092 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:07:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1202092 Such a tonic to hear and see those excellent selfless people doing such a great job. I have a horrible feeling that in this age of ‘social media’ society is becoming less and less concerned with the needs of people who have fallen on hard times. The photos of the volunteers literally brought a tear to my eye. Thanks guys. x

]]> By: redandblackmanthinks https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1202049 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:33:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1202049 These volunteers are doing heroic work.
Whilst the East End has always had a history of difficult times, as Dan Clark states “It’s a damning condemnation of our society that people are short of food in such a rich country.” It would be interesting to know if there is a proportion of visitors to the food bank that is currently employed, but forced to use the bank due to low wages. Food banks are a result of the government`s apparent infatuation with austerity, an ideology rather than a necessity.

]]> By: Laura Syers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1202028 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:38:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1202028 What wonderful, wonderful people!

]]> By: Sandra Hetherington https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1202023 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:40:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1202023 What a great bunch of caring people. It is very sad that it is a fact of life that due to illness or misfortune any one of us could become homeless or struggling to make ends meet.

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1202002 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:10:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1202002 Good for you volunteers.
Disgusting that food banks exist in a democracy.

]]> By: mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1201972 Sun, 01 Apr 2018 18:26:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1201972 Good people. But we all know food banks should not exist. Under the current “crop” we also all know that things will never improve.

]]> By: Janet green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/01/bow-food-bank-portraits/#comment-1201968 Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:42:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164586#comment-1201968 Wonderful project with wonderful volunteers. My family are originally from the East End, and I went back to live there in the 80s. There was poverty then, but it seems to have got worse if there is now a need for a food bank. But how sad and disgraceful that such a project is needed in the 21st Century.

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