By Radha Mohan Dasa
Press Release
5th March 2007
Food for Life charity wins Sustainable City Award
Food for Life, based at Bhaktivedanta Manor UK, has received high recognition. Food for All helps the homeless and disadvantaged through serving free meals and educational services, and the City of London Corporation made it a winner of it’s “Green Oscars” at the annual Sustainable City Awards last week.
Food For All (as the charity is called in England) won the prestigious Sustainable City Award for the Access category as the judges were very impressed with its comprehensive provision of free nutritious meals to over
700 homeless/disadvantaged people six days a week using eco-friendly practices.
Hundreds of organisations nationwide entered the competition demonstrating the support for environmental practices. Food For All was one of the only charities to win the award amongst large multinational companies such as BT and BSkyB and was commended for making a positive contribution to serving the disadvantaged in London. Nick Andrews, one of the judges, stated:
“On behalf of my fellow judges, I can say that your prize for winning was very well deserved and recognises the great efforts and contributions you make as a team – this being against some very strong competition too.” Anjana Ghosh and her mother Krishna Vallabha are pictured receiving the award on behalf of Food For All which was presented by Green Tsar Zar Goldsmith, editor of The Ecologist.
Food for All UK website: www.matchlessgifts.org.uk
For more information, please contact
Peter O’Grady on
07946 420 827 (m)
Or Radha Mohan das on
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Parasurama das is the team leader of Food for All since nearly ten years. He also prepares and distributes food, personally and daily with his small dedicated team distributing meals to the needy in London. It would have been nice seeing Parasurama’s name mentioned in this article. Anjana Ghosh and her mother Krishna Vallabha are, in fact, dedicated volonteer helpers to the Food for All team and went on behalf of Food for All to collect the award.
Karuna Purna dasi
Karuna Purna dasi has made a very valid point- – ideally Parasuram’s name should have been mentioned in the article because he is indeed the team leader and he works tirelessly for Food for All.
As a good friend of Parasuram prabhu myself, I am one of Food for All’s secretaries and also a Trustee. In this case, the press release was partially written by and approved of Parasuram himself. As a favour I simply sent his article to this website. It was surely out of humility that he did not mention his own name. I do admit that ideally I should have slipped it in there when his ‘back was turned’, but at least this mistermeaner has given myself and others the opportunity to glorify Parasuram and of course the entire Food for All team all the more.