Sikh Welfare & Awareness Team serves hundreds of hot meals on Wednesdays and Sundays outside Reading Town Hall and is seeing children from refugees needing food. Lead volunteer Rupee Chagar explains that at meal times children of refugees can miss out and present themselves at the food vans wearing flip-flops and inappropriate clothing.
The number of food parcels hand out each week has risen from 140 to 200 in the last five years, as the charity expands from helping the homeless to meeting the needs of those struggling with the cost of living too.
At a recent presentation by the Sikh community to the NHS and Children’s Hospice, Ruppe Chagar spoke about the challenges of the food charity in Reading which operates twice a week Wednesday and Sunday evenings outside Reading Town Hall.
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Who Are The Sikh Welfare & Awareness Team – SWAT
SWAT is a charitable organisation based in West London, its primary function is to unite and transform financially disadvantaged communities by focusing on projects which make a difference in people’s lives.
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