• Takaisin Elämään Ry:n ruokajakelu

    joulukuu 1st, 2015

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    ”Hi! My name is Mia, and I am (unashamedly) poor.”

    The start of the month went with very few gigs, because of being sick.

    Living is still taking money.
    [a bundle of receipts and bills]
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    To make things easier, I decided to try the food aid of Takaisin Elämään Ry [a local, Christianity based association]
    ”I have visited the food aid distribution at Hyvinkää’s Toimari before.”

    ”- This is an open for everyone food aid every Monday at 12.30 pm. Some people come to queue an hour before the start.
    – Take your own bag.
    – No bullying, shoving or cutting the queue.
    – Let the workers do their thing in peace.”

    Osku: ”There is another queue dedicated to students on Thursdays, at 3 pm. Take your student card or other proof of being a student with you!”
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    There was a longer line compared to Hyvinkää’s queue.

    Families with children were put on their own line.

    ”The queue went on pretty fast. I think I got out of there in 15 minutes.”

    ”Although it looked like some people were keeping a spot to their friends, too. I think that is cutting the line, kinda.”
    ”In Toimari of Hyvinkää they used queuing numbers. In here, people got served in order of arriving.”

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    From the food aid queue I got:
    – sausage
    – bag of potatoes
    – bag of dill
    – a couple of apples
    – a couple of yogurts and similar milk products
    – a box of large tomatoes
    – …and a small packet of octopus.

    ”Octopus was a bit of  a surprise…”
    [I have never tried it]

    And one was able to take bread from crates by one’s own need.

    ”I might try the food aid queue of Takaisin Elämään Ry again.
    I give three stars out of five, and plus for the fact that yogurts and other milk products were not crushed to the bottom of the bag.”

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