Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Can you please help,a young family have been to see me because their payments have be held up for the last 3weeks ormore they have run out of funds and have no food in the house and would like to know where and the opening times of the food banks in and around Dover A.S.P. if you can help Thank you.I have always said"You have to look after no 1 first so you can can look after no2.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it doesn't work like that unfortunately people have to be referred to them by social services or the like, there is one in deal but the dover one has not opened yet.
http://dover.foodbank.org.uk/Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you for telling me that it will save them looking and showing them what they must do.Times are very hard for a young family at this time I do feel sorry for them no work no food to feed a family it is time that we looked after our own first.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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As the information under the link above makes clear, they are but half way to their three Tonne target. This,apparently, is the essential figure to be reached before they can begin operation. In addition to the shopping list below they are also in need of a few more volunteers...
Shopping List
Please help feed local people in crisis by buying items from our list and donating them to Dover foodbank.
Thank you!
Milk (UHT or powdered)
Sugar (500g)
Fruit Juice (Carton)
Soup
Pasta Sauces
Sponge Pudding (Tinned)
Tomatoes (Tinned)
Cereals
Rice Pudding (Tinned)
Tea Bags/Instant Coffee
Instant mash potato
Rice/Pasta
Tinned meat/fish
Tinned Vegetables
Tinned fruit
Jam
Biscuits or Snack Bar
P.S.
Oops, all this and I cannot tell you where to take the stuff.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We have just helped out in a small way but sorry it was not to the foodbank this time.But looking at the list above we done the right thing. But one or two on there will help next time.Thank you for showing it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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there is a collection area in our local co-op where food can be donated but i don't know our local main hub, probably a church hall.
Bob Whysman
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I never heard of food banks in Dover before sigh of the times but it is sad.payments are not being paid out some familys going weeks without payments rents are not geting paid no food on the tables even for the young ones,Familys are having to sell what few belongings they have just to eat. It was not this bad even in the war and the years after.How are they going to get by in the bad weather gets here cold and snow without heating and hot water.?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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there is one coming soon vic.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Soming has to be done before the winter is with us.But what? I am told the s/s dept and the doll office is no help all they say is the hold up of payments is up the line .
Guest 1036- Registered: 27 Aug 2013
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I agree we should look after our own first.But there is a reason why there money is delayed.And they must have relatives on either side.I live near the job centre and they sit on my wall with 3 children and another one on the way .they can afford to have mobile phones in their hands and their bodies covered in tattoos and both parents smoking.? ( All this costs money ) young girls of today get pregnant and think the world owes them a living.Food Banks are a good thing for the needy as long as the needy gets them.( who on this forum would put money in the pot for tattoos and mobile phones and fags ).
Eleanor H.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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some are more deserving than others eleanor, doesn't your heart go out to these poor wretches?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They are not all like that infact only a few are.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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vic,they are just a bunch of chavs,so don't worry to much.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the poor mites could be down to their last can of special brew.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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We all live in a Capitalist, Consumerist and 'Aspirational' society.
Given this fact, what sort of mind can possibly conceive of the notion that whosoever has not the wherewithal to possess cannot possess, and has no 'right' to possess.
What portion of our population can get by without Credit and without Debt? Certainly not those who have a Mortgage or those who have savings and/or investments, or any who rely upon profit of any kind.
We are all subjected to an insistent and persistent pressure 'to possess', our whole economy runs upon this rail of 'aspiration'.
'Their' succumbing to the consumerist norm should not be any sort of surprise, and certainly not to any others who rely upon their money working for them.
And yet the age-old canard dresses itself up for every occasion:"They keep their coal in the bath, you know!, What do they want with a piano?, How dare they have Sky TV! etc. etc. and on and on it goes.
Why not begin every Commercial Break with a health warning?
"No-one without a disposable income in excess of £X should view the following!"
"Nobody without guaranteed constant highly paid employment need apply?"
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Reading this thread highlights what we are all very good at and yes, the problems identified by some very able posters do exist. If we took everything in life to be true on first impressions, where would it all end I wonder?
We can all relate stories that create emotive responses and then sit back smugly and view the support, or otherwise, that our comments generate, but the clever one's are those that can do something about it!
Every problem that exists anywhere has a root cause and THAT is where, I suggest, the problem and the answers are to be found.
I suspect suggestions on the back of a postage stamp are forthcoming from those who tend to sit in judgement rather than offer constructive solutions.
We've identified the problem. What are the solutions?
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Well Bob, you have, I suspect inadvertently, hit upon the nub.
You make mention of 'it' before you mention 'root cause'. This is exactly how things must be done, you just seem to have the next bit back-to-front.
I'm all for your notion that "the clever ones are those that can [I would far rather it were 'will'] do something about it."
I say 'will' for the simple reason that the ones that you mention are everyone. For as the problem is everyone's the solution too lies with everybody. The trick, as it appears to me, is for everybody to accept their part, as part, of 'the problem'.
I see, in the far distance/in the mists, the root solution in the alteration of the common mind-set that Politics is ALL about Politicians and mostly about Party.
As it is ever 'others' who cause 'the problem', it is ever for others to sort 'it' out.
Register to Vote, with the determination within yourself that you WILL Vote, is the first step.
P.S.
Oops!
The above, of course, is the Second Step, the First being, coming to the realisation that ;we are, each and all, part of the problem, and so part of the solution.'
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I wonder if some of you would be posting the way you are if you was in the same boat as them I only wish I could help the ones that need help and therte are lot that do not all are wasters as some of you are saying.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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sorry to hear that lesley but you could always use a biro to make a tattoo, nobody would know unless they get up close.
