Plymouth’s Homeless in UK have a taste of Sikh LANGAR!

Service users of a city homeless drop-in-centre were treated to a traditional Sikh dish as part of Langar Week.

Plymouth councillor, Chaz Singh, took over the kitchen at Shekinah Mission as part of Langar week, to treat the service users to traditional Sikh dishes.

Councillor Singh is an advocate of the Sikh community in Plymouth and has done previous work with homeless organisations, this was the first time he treated the users to a free meal.

Laura Fraser-Crewes, operations manager at Shekinah Mission, said: “With everything going on in the world at the moment with the refugee crisis it’s so lovely to see the Christian and Sikh community coming together here. They are both here with one purpose and that is feeding people in need.

“Langar means community kitchen so it’s perfect to have Chaz here doing this. It’s free food and has brought lots of people to the centre.

“There are bigger cities than Plymouth that aren’t doing anything like this. We want to show the way and show how important events like this are.

“For me this is also about promoting a healthy diet. For many of the people who use this service they either eat soup or pasties. Part of the new work we are doing is around healthy eating and events like this feed that. We want the service users eating more veg and more fresh produce and to use less things from tins.”

Many of the service users are homeless or isolated and use the drop-in-centre to access a cheap meal – many of them were excited to try a new dish served by Councillor Singh.

Councillor Chaz Singh dishes up some of the food for Shekinah service users

“This is our way of showing the Sikh culture in Plymouth. People can talk to us about being a Sikh and we can provide food.”

~ Source: www.plymouthherald.co.uk