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Community Kitchen programme will be a signature programme of Pekik Community Servies. Hunger and poor nutrition are major problems afflicting the poorest of the poor beneficiaries we serve.
For me personally, my heart breaks every time I hear about how a child goes hungry, or about how the elderly don’t have enough to eat. Pekik Community Service’s Key Officer Sufiyyah has told me many stories of such hungry individuals in this area. Some children even knock on her doors to ask if she has leftover food to give them. She of course does whatever she can to help them.
It is unimaginable that in Singapore, a city with so much affluence, some children and the elderly can go hungry. And we all should do whatever we can to help them.
Mr and Mrs Mahad for example, live in a 1-room rental flat in York Hill. Mr Mahad’s wife is paralysed from waist-down and is wheelchair bound. Mr Mahad is the main caregiver for his wife. He is unemployed with severe financial constraints.
Young Iqmal and Imran’s stories are also sad ones. Both their parents are in prison. The brothers are being cared for by their grandmother. Besides them, their grandmother is also caring for 5 of their cousins.
These are stories of just some off the saddest families who will be benefiting from our Community Kitchen programme.
There are senior citizens in our area who are less-abled and dependent on food distribution programmes to have at least one decent meal a day. The only proper foods some of the children in our areas eat are in their school tuckshops, provided by initiatives such as the School Pocket Money Fund.
Through our programme, we hope to feed at least 100 people a month – or provide over 26,500 meals a year. The cost of providing one meal is about $3 per meal. The cost for providing over 26,500 meals for the year will be $80,000.
Many people don’t think much about spending over $10 for a meal. But it is not so for the beneficiaries of Pekik Community Services. We hope those that hear of the work we do here will open their wallets and donate generously for our community kitchen programme.
