A visit to the Upper Room Food Bank: A photo essay on giving, kindness and community
At the moment of yr, everyone is longing to be with their households, spending time with their family members. Experiencing that pleasure and heat that comes with being round your family members can have such a optimistic impression.
On the Higher Room Meals Financial institution, witnessing all of the volunteers at work, the grins on their faces, the conversations whereas working, creates such an exquisite environment that exhibits you what the Christmas spirit is, and what kindness is.
Entry to mandatory meals is a human proper. However so long as poverty exists, particularly with low hourly minimal wages in distinction to fixed rising costs of lodging and reasonably priced housing, individuals in want of their fundamental meals wants will at all times be there.
Figuring out there are establishments just like the Higher Room Meals Financial institution searching for the group, offering for anyone in want is actually what kindness is.
Simply having the ability to spend a while with the volunteers, studying how they intentionally take their time to come back in and cope with the very beneficiant donations and double examine all the pieces, the frequent phrases that resounded had been: “I like P.E.I. I like the group. We have to assist in any manner.”
A real act of kindness
Portraits of Kindness is particular collection of picture essays. CBC Atlantic requested native photographers to go to a meals financial institution and seize acts of kindness by means of their lens. The venture coincides with CBC’s Make The Season Kind campaign in assist of meals banks in Atlantic Canada.
