Soul food for the homeless in Bangor

A community project in Bangor has started offering the homeless food after being inundated with people on the poverty line.

The Greenhouse community building has launched an new initiative called Soup, Stories, Soul to help those desperate for help.

They even want to convert the ground floor of the building into a cafe.

In the past the Greenhouse would direct those who come in asking about food to the foodbanks and homeless projects in the city.

But Alexandra Wilson, who works at the project, said the final straw came when a young woman came in to use the phone.

“The phone line to the job centre kept dropping and the young woman had to start again telling her story. She ended up telling it three times. She had no money, no food her benefits had been stopped and she hadn’t eaten in three days.

“After repeating it three times she started to weep.”

Staff and volunteers at the Greenhouse found her story so moving they decided to try and do more to help those on the breadline.

“Provision of a community meal once a week will start straight away but Soup, Stories and Soul remains optimistic that the funds can be raised to renovate the ground floor of the Greenhouse into a café.”

To donate go tocrowdfunder.co.uk/soupstoriesand-soul.