October 14, 2014
Food for all
On Monday afternoons, workers of Lovosice Parish Caritas go to one of the bakeries in Usti region to get quantities of unsold bread and pastry that would otherwise be thrown away. They purchase it for a symbolic amount. Depending on how much was obtained, they give mostly sweet pastry to institutions that are run by the Caritas. One of these is a shelter for women and mothers with children right in Lovosice.
Mothers need bread and other food aid that can be obtained especially in the period before they receive social benefits. While they wait, the mothers get involved with work around the house and garden. After all, the shelter, while temporary, is the only real home they have for the time being.
In most of the shelters run by the local Caritas mothers or women in need teach the residents how to cook, buy with thriftiness and manage money in general. Moreover, residents can process what grows in the garden in the Lovosice shelter. Cherry soufflés and jams were made this year. In the spring of 2014, a collection of food happened right in Globus store in Lovosice. Workers and clients of the shelter had a stand in the store's building where the buyers could learn what the shelter would need. People could also help with purchasing coloring pencils, notebooks or other small things for children.
Last but not least, something surprising happened to one of the residents of the shelter at the beginning of the year. Right before Easter, the CEO, together with colleagues from the shelter, were thinking about how they would purchase all the ingredients for baking Easter lambs and other sweets. Having all costs barely summed the doorbell rang. Members of the mothers' association from the Church Unity of Brethren in Lovosice came with two full boxes of food. As if they had been ordered, oil, eggs, sugar and flour appeared. Simply all that is needed for baking. All that was left to purchase was vanilla sugar!
Women were baking day and night and just before Easter; the whole shelter was scented with baked lambs, Easter cakes and pies.
The article comes from the report issued for the occasion of the campaign One Family, Food for All.
