Refugee Community Kitchen is honoured to receive the the Food Observer Monthly's 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award! We are deeply grateful to everyone who made this possible, especially our hard working volunteers. Below is part of The Guardian’s article about our work:
“At 5.30pm, two unmarked white vans swing in to the car park of Puythouck, a nature reserve on the outskirts of Dunkirk, northern France. A couple of dozen men are waiting for them, but within a minute or two, many more emerge, like spirits, from the dense trees that surround the lake. Soon there are maybe 200. They are, I’ll find out, mainly Kurds and remarkably, considering the journeys they have taken and their present accommodation, most are in buoyant mood and well turned out. Only when you look closer do you notice that a disproportionate number are limping and a couple are on crutches; injuries picked up as they attempted to escape this place and find a better life.
The vans belong to Refugee Community Kitchen, a charity started in December 2015 by four Londoners, and this year’s winner of OFM’s Outstanding Achievement Award…”