‘I just want to make sure we are looking out for our neighbours. You don’t know who needs a smile’
From left, Sgt Charlene Anderson, Ruth Garvey-Williams and Andrew Garvey-Williams help deliver presents and serve a festive feast to people who are elderly or living alone in the Inishowen area
“I volunteer at The Exchange community centre in Inishowen,” she says. “We will start on the morning of the 23rd of December getting the food ready and finish up on the evening of 25th. On Christmas Eve we deliver dinners and gifts across the Inishowen peninsula to people who live just a bit too far out to make it to the dinner on Christmas Day.
“Volunteers do everything from cook, clean, deliver dinners, pick people up and drop them home from the centre,” she says. “We have two over-70s who come every year and play music throughout the day and we, the volunteers, also sit down to enjoy a dinner, so everyone eats together. It’s like having a big extended family enjoying good food together.
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