In the Downtown Eastside (DTES), Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen Society is building a kitchen.
The organization has purchased a building at 245 E. Hastings (just east of Main and Hastings) and their temporary Saturday and Sunday kitchens will become permanent and allow them to feed people seven days a week.
Every Saturday and Sunday, volunteers descends on Main and Hastings. They set up a large blue tent that reads “Love All Feed All” and then work to exhume large containers of rice, lentils, rice pudding, juice and chai tea onto several foldout tables. By the time they finish, they will have fed 300 to 400 a hot meal during one of those Vancouver downpours.
Guru Nanak’s also works with food rescue, emergency relief, and providing school supplies for children.
Volunteer Paul Hundle from Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen sat down with CFRO to talk about their weekly activity: feeding the DTES.
