Visiting the Soup Kitchen, 10 July 2013

It was wonderful to be a part of the dedicated group of Green Team enthusiasts visiting the Soup Kitchen on Tory Street. The students asked insightful, thoughtful questions and really appreciated the chance to help others in the community. We have been delivering our garden produce for the past two terms and it was lovely to form a relationship with the people who work there and find out a little more about the people who use the Soup Kitchen and why and what kinds of vegetables we should grow that would be most useful to them. Here is a report from some of the students who came along: 

Delivering our produce to the Soup Kitchen

By Lauren D, Catharina VH and Paige M A small group of us drove down to the soup kitchen in Tory Street, Wellington on Tuesday. We talked to Nikki the Community engagement Manager and to Sister Josefia. We found that they don’t only serve food, they help people who are going through hard situations in their lives. They also help them to feel appreciated. Nikki showed us around and we had lunch in the dinning room. We learnt that they do have soup every morning for breakfast because that has been the tradition since the Soup Kitchen opened in 1907 by Suzanne Aubert and it provides all the nutrition you need to get through the day. We took some of our garden produce in for the chefs and they really appreciated it, especially the herbs because they are expensive! It made us feel really good to be helping the community and we can’t wait to take them some more healthy vegies. 

To find out more about the Soup Kitchen - www.soupkitchen.org.nz