A 'travelling kitchen' is crossing Europe to bring warm meals to refugees as part of Feeding Humanity and is currently on its way towards the refugee camps of Lesbos.
Feeding Humanity is a project created in the UK to provide warm meals to migrants in the Europe's cities and refugee camps. Using a bus that has been converted into a travelling kitchen, the volunteers of the project have since 2015 been travelling to help those seeking to reach and cross Europe in search of a better future.
Warm meals for refugees
The project stems from an idea of Ghafoor Hussain, a British grandfather originally from Stockton On-Tees. "During the late summer of 2015, I took a van full of food to the refugees in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. While I was there I discovered that the people were mostly only getting cold meals,'' he wrote on the website of the initiative. "I thought there must be something we can do and that's when I came up with the idea to buy a bus and convert it into a travelling kitchen,'' he added.
Once back in the UK, Hussain bought a bus and turned it into a kitchen on wheels with the help of some volunteers. And then, "together with Bamo Ghafari, we embarked on our journey to Macedonia, Greece, Serbia, wherever we thought our services would be needed. We were also joined by a team of volunteers on site too including doctors". Heading towards Lesbos In its activities, Feeding Humanity has served thousands of meals across all Europe. In recent days, the bus has been making its way towards Lesbos to bring warm meals to thousands of migrants on the island. "At the moment, just on Lesbos island, there are over 8000 refugees,'' Hussain said in an interview with the BBC. "We start about six in the morning and don't finish until about 10 or 11 at night". People "have called me mad, but to be honest with you it's like a drug. Once you do a job like this, you want to keep going back and doing it''.