Fetching Water

The story of The Gathering's weekly Soup Kitchen is a long and varied one, and over the eight years that we've been running it, we have had some interesting issues and obstacles to deal with and overcome.

Today's particular obstacle was perhaps the strangest to overcome... 

The water in Firgrove had been off since 6pm the previous night and it still wasn't on at 11am when I needed 100 litres of water to get ready making the soup.

So after a quick call to a church member on the other side of the community where the water was still on, I loaded up our two biggest pans in the back of my car and used their hose pipe to three-quarter fill the pans and then drive back to our building very slowly!

Together with the two hours of loadshedding over lunchtime, it made for a fairly typical day here in South Africa.

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