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“We raised enough money to put together over 1,000 food boxes - filled with things like rice, pasta, flour, oil, halal meat cans, ready-made soups, coffee, tea, milk - which we then took to the Barnet Food Hub and the homeless. Before long our living room was simply covered in boxes of supplies and made-up parcels. That was actually really fun. We were including plates and cutlery, and despatching over 400 packs a week. Different churches and the Hub (which supports 17 food banks in Barnet) helped to distribute it all. Once you've created a system, it flows out to wherever it's needed.
"Sometimes you feel shy to ask for help, many people do. But I'm a Memon and I have become an ‘international beggar’ to support others. I really want to help people and to create the same mentality in my kids. Good people, good families, can still face bad times and disasters. When we drove tractors into flooded areas in Pakistan I felt so sad. You want to help everybody but you can’t. I felt relieved for those I helped, but there were so many more that I used to feel such frustration. We could never do enough. When COVID came, I had to go out to multiple shops and areas to collect and manage and distribute supplies, and of course I was very worried I might catch it and pass it on to my family. So I had to be very careful. I washed everything, sprayed myself with anti-bacterial sprays, disinfected. Then we made our own bottles of anti-bacterial sprays and shared these out too. It was really very tough but it is a great feeling to be able to help."
“We raised enough money to put together over 1,000 food boxes - filled with things like rice, pasta, flour, oil, halal meat cans, ready-made soups, coffee, tea, milk - which we then took to the Barnet Food Hub and the homeless. Before long our living room was simply covered in boxes of supplies and made-up parcels. That was actually really fun. We were including plates and cutlery, and despatching over 400 packs a week. Different churches and the Hub (which supports 17 food banks in Barnet) helped to distribute it all. Once you've created a system, it flows out to wherever it's needed.
"Sometimes you feel shy to ask for help, many people do. But I'm a Memon and I have become an ‘international beggar’ to support others. I really want to help people and to create the same mentality in my kids. Good people, good families, can still face bad times and disasters. When we drove tractors into flooded areas in Pakistan I felt so sad. You want to help everybody but you can’t. I felt relieved for those I helped, but there were so many more that I used to feel such frustration. We could never do enough. When COVID came, I had to go out to multiple shops and areas to collect and manage and distribute supplies, and of course I was very worried I might catch it and pass it on to my family. So I had to be very careful. I washed everything, sprayed myself with anti-bacterial sprays, disinfected. Then we made our own bottles of anti-bacterial sprays and shared these out too. It was really very tough but it is a great feeling to be able to help."
“We raised enough money to put together over 1,000 food boxes - filled with things like rice, pasta, flour, oil, halal meat cans, ready-made soups, coffee, tea, milk - which we then took to the Barnet Food Hub and the homeless. Before long our living room was simply covered in boxes of supplies and made-up parcels. That was actually really fun. We were including plates and cutlery, and despatching over 400 packs a week. Different churches and the Hub (which supports 17 food banks in Barnet) helped to distribute it all. Once you've created a system, it flows out to wherever it's needed.