The Slavin family, Shluchim in Sydney, Australia whose home was chosen recently by the popular TV show The Living Room to be renovated, has received another amazing gift – the renovation of the soup kitchen they run which feeds hundreds every day.
Lauren Golman of A Current Affair reports:
They say the kitchen is the heart of the home. But Our Big Kitchen is the heart of a community.
From humble beginnings, Our Big Kitchen now provides free food for those who need it most.
Our Big Kitchen, or OBK, is a community-run industrial kitchen where meals are prepared for distribution to hospitals, ambulances, women’s, youth and children’s shelters, hostels, religious organisations, and anyone else who’s hungry.
The heart and soul of this kitchen is Rabbi Dr. Dovid Slavin and his wife Laya Slavin. They started OBK 18 years ago, for people of all walks of life to connect through food.
OBK typically makes 1500 meals a week, during the bushfires that ramped up to 2500, and right now, OBK is pumping out 3500 meals a week.
But where did it all start? In the Slavin home kitchen, it started almost two decades ago.
Over the last 18 years, this home kitchen has literally fallen apart. So with the help of some very generous businesses, we renovated both kitchens. The Slavins and crew at OBK were all overwhelmed.
This year has been difficult, but if anything, this story goes to show there’s a whole heap of good out there. You just have to find it.
Help Our Big Kitchen win as a Westfield Local Hero. If she wins, $10,000 will be donated to OBK.
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i fined this so touching!