Posts Tagged ‘Soup kitchen’

Compassion Centre Soup Kitchen Community Garden.

Friday, August 10th, 2012

A glass house for the Compassion Centre Soup Kitchen is the latest addition to the Owhiro Bay Community Garden. Guests of the soup kitchen can now raise seedlings for their garden plot, with the help of staff members Sr Christina Williams and Lorraine Irwin. Guests were last year introduced to the garden by its coordinator, Read more

97 year old Sister Felix gets a medal

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

This week 97-year old  Compassion Sister Felix received a medal for 7 decades of work as a sister. The medal was given to Sister Felix primarily for the work she did in the Wellington soup kitchen which was then in Buckle St. For more than 12 years she cooked breakfast and dinner every day, visiting sick, Read more

Foodlessness – eating your dinner and wondering

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

A five-year doctoral study by Waikato University sociologist Dr Kellie McNeill has found that charities served 25,000 free meals, Work and Income gave out 12,000 food grants and foodbanks gave out 4,000 food parcels in Hamilton in 2006-07. That was at a time when the economy was booming. National statistics suggest the recession may have roughly doubled Read more