Volunteers prepare a meal for fifty in the temple kitchen
For the past eleven years, volunteers at the Geeta Bhavan Mandir in Leicester have been serving food at the Vidhur Luncheon Club, a weekly event for the elderly, most of whom are Hindus from North India and East Africa, who come to enjoy a freshly cooked meal, play cards, and catch up on the latest news.
Prem Khosla helps organize the event and prepare the food, collecting a nominal £2 from each person to offset the costs. "It's great for the elderly community to have a home-cooked meal and great for the volunteers to do this work," he says.
Many of Leicester's elderly Asians have been in Britain for thirty years or more, laying the foundation for what would become the UK's most multicultural city.
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