This year the VDSA Lunch Project Group, nicknamed The Foodies, celebrates its 10th birthday. The team includes approximately twenty people, and while there are members who had to leave because of life circumstances, the core of the group has remained untouched in time. Equally untouched has remained their generosity, enthusiasm, and steady collaboration in providing our monthly lunches for the clients of the ASC.
Notwithstanding also in 2022 COVID’s ongoing spectre has caused anxiety, and has required recurrent checking, revision of our schedule and some adjustments, we have managed to keep our commitment without cancelling any lunch.
Only on two occasions there was a variation in our usual routine of preparing food at home and then working at the ASC to organise the meal. In one case we prepared and delivered the full lunch menu but had to leave it at the desk for the ASC staff to take charge, and on another the VDSA offered $250 to the Centre to cover our scheduled lunch as we were unable to serve it in person.
In conclusion, and once more, the VDSA Lunch Group has been able to overcome obstacles, cope with the volatile situation created by the pandemic and fulfill our pledge, thus maintaining our successful cooperation with the ASC.
As mentioned, ten years have gone by since the Foodies began working on behalf of VDSA, and I feel deeply grateful to its members, past and present, for what we have managed to achieve together.
To The Foodies a heartfelt thank you!
Mariella Totaro-Genevois
Coordinator, VDSA Lunch Project ASC
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