COVID 19 RELIEF

This project, a one off response to the Coronavirus pandemic will particularly cheer up these elders and at least as long as it lasts will virtually remove loneliness and isolation. They will feel a sense of belonging, feel at home and cared for. The project has the capacity to connect with these elders to map out a relationship in the future that may completely take them out of isolation and social exclusion or connect them with fellow elders with whom to develop everlasting friendship and relationship.

The lockdown, particularly for the over 60 years of age Black Elders, who live alone in the Greater Manchester area Black Communities, CeeBee Gold has decided to support this target group by making and delivering cooked (hot) CULTURAL MEALS to them every Saturday for 10 weeks. We have identified 50 Black Elders from different Countries who live in and around the Greater Manchester area who need this service. We have established the country they originally came from (Nigeria, Ghana Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Jamaica, Barbados etc), we will then recruit Food Hygiene and Certificated volunteer cooks to cook traditional meals of those countries of origin and delivered meals to the following all the Government directives on the Coronavirus pandemic for safety. Volunteers dressed in PPEs will deliver to the elders' add, dresses, however, they would have been contacted by phone that they are on their way. This project is only a response to this pandemic and is just to put some smiles on the faces of these elders in the face of despair, fear, loneliness, isolation, and social exclusion