Wales Coronavirus Resilience Fund - Oasis Cardiff

Published: Apr 23, 2020 Duration: 00:02:57 Category: Nonprofits & Activism

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[Music] I was wondering Phoebe I was test a little bit about what you're doing with that fund you know you're using that money to support people in your community so with the advent of current virus and all the restrictions we have changed a lot of our services so we now do food deliveries so we're giving food out in the car park to clients that normally we come and have a good lunch so we're doing a cut lunch I'm putting it in food parcels so that people can take it away so I could take away service that's up to 40 people Monday to Friday man I've been doing home did a breeze but some people that are socially isolating because that I'm well or they've got health related issues and we're doing about 40 of those a week we're having to use the fund to pay for the extra food because we're trying to get people and even more nutritious meal than we normally give an alleged time but we've also had to add packaging to it so we use paper bags we use microwave tape we microwave containers lettuce eatable and we're also having to source an awesome tinned tomatoes and pasta for food parcels as well so we're doing weekly food parcels who do you normally help if it was just your normal working day who would you be helping with in Cardiff and what would you be doing with them so in a normal working day we work with the same seekers and refugees and we would normally be running English classes employability support one-to-one support arts drama music different classes trips out into the community all about integration and promoting integration and also providing a lunch looking as well it so anything you'd like to say in particular to people who've donated to the fund and how it's made a difference to you to the local Oasis I think it is given us the space to be able to develop a better service for our prize in this trying time so it is meant that we can carry on doing some space one-to-one restricted face to face support which for a lot of our clients we may be the only face that they see that they can speak to a lot of people don't have internet so it's a really valuable source of support for people to have someone to talk to even if it's a very short time and also to be able to give food to people that may not be able to cook because they're unwell or to go out to the shops and it's giving them a lifeline that they wouldn't normally have I'm really glad that we've been able to support Oasis Cardiff without fund and I hope to give me more about the great work that you've been doing thank you [Music]

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