Himaya Haven received funding in April 2021 from Asda Foundation’s Supporting Communities Fund. This funding was secured to provide Ramadan food hampers for 30 of the families they support. On average the number of people that would have benefitted from this is 120 people, 60 adults and 70 children. The items included in each hamper were a box of dates, 1Kg of gram flour, 5Kg of chapatti flour, orange juice bottle, Tilda rice packet (250g), pasta, chickpea tins, peeled plum tomato tins, vegetable cooking oil (1L), Tetley tea bags (box of 80), 1Kg sugar bag, Asda coffee jars, Celebrations chocolate box, 2 packs of lentils, beans, salt and garam masala.

On the 20th April 2021 Himaya Haven received the funding from Asda Foundation. So the day was spent picking up the food items, loading them into the office and sorting and organising all items into individual groups and then splitting them equally to put into each individual hamper. A donation was also collected by Razia from Active wellbeing to add into the Ramadan food hampers. They were then delivered and/or collected by our clients.

 Some of our food hampers were also donated to the organisations Roshni (Domestic Violence Victim/Survivors) and Sisters Care Project.

The Ramadan Food Hamper project was directly after the Ramadan Prisoner Welfare Pack project, with the RPWP finishing on the 22nd of April, and this project starting on the 20th of April 2021. This was a very challenging time for the team having to be on the go, sorting and delivering without a break in-between, especially due to staff members also starting their fasting month.