| Hillcrest Housing Association has been running its Bring it Tin campaign since July, and now has boxes and boxes of canned and packaged foodstuffs at its base on Tom Johnston Road.
Hillcrest asked Tele readers to raid their cupboards and donate any non-perishables for city residents living below the breadline in an appeal eight weeks ago.
The same plea also went out on radio and was made to housing association workers as well as contacts from more than 60 suppliers and other companies.
But now, having gathered more than 150 boxes of goodies in eight weeks, the housing association needs more help to deliver it to the charities which will distribute it to those in need.
“The response was amazing and the appeal in the Evening Telegraph was very helpful. Food started coming in and didn’t stop!” organiser Joy Watson said.
“We’re now looking for a man with a van or a removal company to help us to shift it all and get it to the charities. There’s just so much of it.”
Once the provisions have been delivered to the food parcel schemes run by St Vincent de Paul’s RC Church, St Salvador’s Episcopal Church and the Discovery Food Programme at the Full Gospel Church, they will distribute it to those in need across the city.
“We manage a number of anti-poverty projects right across Dundee and were putting a demand on these services, so we thought it was time to give something back,” Joy said.
“So we just extended it to everyone internally, and to all our contacts and suppliers, including people like the city council, sheltered housing complexes and even schools.
“We got everyone in our contact book to email everyone in their contact book and it just seems to have grabbed the imagination.
“And now we’ve got more than 150 boxes of food and no way to move it. We’re hoping someone can help out!” |
