By James Simons-
A former University graduate from the world class London School Of Economics, has launched an impressive ‘One Million Meals’ campaign. The campaign is aiming to donate a million free meals to key workers in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bilal Bin Saqib, an entrepreneur who graduated in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the prestigious LSE in 2019, is supporting Nhs workers and other key workers with meals as they help the sick during this time of national crises. Saqib, 29, co-founded the One Million Meals campaign with a group of social entrepreneurs, and aims to play his part in showing appreciation to the Nhs in these difficult times.
The campaign provides key workers like NHS staff, police, school staff, and firefighters with free meals during the COVID-19 crisis, by raising funds and working with food platforms, food chains and restaurants. Volunteers at the One Million Meals operate by identifying demand from essential workplaces and then arranging deliveries from participating restaurants, with each meal costing less than £5 to provide. One Million Meals coordinated more than 5,000 meals to key workers across the UK in just one week.
Wilths health And Care Hospital Image: One Million meals
Representatives of the initiative say the objective is to help isolated community hospitals like Savernake Hospital in Wiltshire, where staff were unable to access meals after the hospital canteen and local pub closed down. The group have so far served 46 hospitals in the Uk free meals
Croydon Health Services Hospital Image: One million meals for key workers
A spokesperson for the one million meals campaign told The Eye Of Media.Com: ”The real motivation behind this project is to offer a community response to this challenge healing the divisive wounds of Brexit. It sprang from the question ‘how can we play our part while staying at homes?’.
We are all committed to volunteering for the campaign till it achieves its purpose of service.Our first priority is NHS staff so they are being served on priority”. The group have already served meals to the Met Police in Croydon and City.Foodbanks have been also donated meals for vulnerable people. Bilal Bin Saqib said, “So far, One Million Meals has been relying on our team’s resources and the amazing generosity of our sponsors to provide meals to key workers and frontline staff.
“We have now had over 40 hospitals express interest in our services. However, to meet our increasing demand, we are reaching out to the public to donate to the campaign to help us bring food to the people keeping them safe and healthy.”