Menu Close

More Than A Foodbank

They’re setting up a listening service, with the Samaritans on board. Many clients have confessed to dark thoughts of self harm, and this will again offer a little bit of help to overcome them.

a recent community dinner was held to help raise awareness of the elderly who live in isolation, and they are going to start a course to help empower women, which again shows the diversity of service provided at what is modestly called a “foodbank “

It’s much more than that.

Theres a website..

Glasgow NE foodbank

 or you can follow on twitter @GlasgowNE 

Or you can just help out, how, when and where you can.
0 0 votes
Article Rating
9 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Mike Bhoyle
6 years ago

Now…that’s a WORTHY article…
Well done Ralph.

PS: No that yer ithers urny worthy ken….:0)

jimmybee
6 years ago

Excellent article, there but for the grace of God go I indeed.

mike
6 years ago

God bless those who donate and those who volunteer.

Monti
6 years ago

The story of Celtic’s formation, the reason we are here & the hope that Celtic brought to people with nothing, is the reason i support the club.
Times can be hard at different times in life, financially, emotionally and challenging, if you have hope in your heart though, you have something.
Foodbanks as a part of 21st Century Britain is helpful to so many, yet it is a disgrace there is a need for them at all.
Successive Governments should hang their heads in shame.
I remember during the miners strike in the 80’s, my mum and dad weren’t too well off & they had to go to this council run flat for Milk & Butter, i was young at the time and didn’t understand why they struggled at times, it wasn’t until many years later i bumped into one of my parents old neighbours, she told me everybody had it hard in the 70’s & 80’s, but i don’t remember seeing unhappy people going about, people seemed ok with life, i think that has changed now.
*I didn’t vote tory today at the polls!

HH

Thewildgoose
6 years ago

The spirit of Walfrid is still alive

Pensionerbhoy
6 years ago

Ralph,

A very true reflection on the biggest shame of our time. I know, simply because I see them, that most visitors to the food banks are “poor”, the real poor who have been left behind in so many, many ways by our oh so developed and civilised society. We shed tears at the starvation in the “Third World” yet are ever ready to judge and condemn the hungry and neglected here at home as though one group is a victim of its country’s circumstances while the other is nothing short of parasitical. While politicians condemn the so called “benefit cheats” who, in their well-informed experience, steal from the rest of society, they shamefacedly stand with hands in their pockets and accept no responsibility whatsoever for the financial, food, social welfare and healthcare famine that is ravaging our country today. I lay this charge against all political parties. It is time to stop schoolboy politicking and fucking do something effective and worthwhile. You are right, Ralph, about counselling and other services entering the realm of food bank volunteers. Anyone who has seen or been involved with food banks will realise there is an increasing need to provide more than just food, clothes etc. More and more we see so many things that once came under the remit of social services now being administered and expected at food banks. At the same time over 500 hundred political worthies do their Pilate impersonations and wash their hands of any responsibility. “Nothing to be seen here, Jimmy. I must focus on the bigger issues like securing my own future when I lose my seat or making sure I keep the “big boys” happy or who can we bomb next.”

God bless our poor for they give us purpose, raise us to a higher cause and keep us focused on what is at the very heart and soul of Celtic FC.

H H

Pensionerbhoy
6 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

Ralph,

I meant to add for those that say this is not football, no it is not but IT IS CELTIC!

H H

Monti
6 years ago
Reply to  Pensionerbhoy

PB,
Excellent pal!

mike
6 years ago

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone,
turned on some music, to start my day,
I lost myself in a pointed song,
I closed my eyes and it slipped away.

Because it was more than a feeling,
that those humans endure,
the loneliness of the poor,
it just cracks you up,
to see them arms outstretched,
with their tin cup,

begging to survive,
it makes you realize,
that, that could be you or your family.

Well done Ralphy, to awaken our consiounce.

Follow us on Twitter @ETimsNet