COVID-19: How to help
As the needs in our community sadly, continue to grow as the pandemic places more pressure on all levels of society, your appetite to help those in need has not abated. Here’s our COVID-19 Community Guide for lockdown #3.
Read the latest news about social wellbeing and those seeking to improve it in education, health care, religion and spiritual provision, to welfare services for the poor, the disabled and the vulnerable.
As the needs in our community sadly, continue to grow as the pandemic places more pressure on all levels of society, your appetite to help those in need has not abated. Here’s our COVID-19 Community Guide for lockdown #3.
If you’ve been down to Roman Road’s café Quarantacinque recently, you may have noticed a photography display stuck humbly to
‘The drone allows you to see areas from a very unusual perspective and it has the power to completely transform familiar places. I look for the geometry within infrastructure sometimes and the pathways in the park provided that.’
What makes this image unusual, and typical of Covid-19, is the singular plane spotted in the left hand of the photo. Detje says ‘they’re so rare now, compared to how many planes we would normally see’.
If we can retain our appreciation of local businesses out of goodwill and loyalty, and a newfound appreciation of our high street as an important part of our community, then we can hold on to hope.
Stephie Devred, a local photographer based in Hackney Wick, took to Roman Road to capture life on the high street
Bow’s 100-year-old resident, Dabirul Choudhury, is walking laps of his garden while fasting for Ramadan to raise money for those affected by coroanvirus.
‘We had a dilemma. Do we shut down completely in the interest of public health, or do we continue to serve the community, at a time when they need support?’
Rohan is eleven years old and plays the clarinet. ‘I like that there’s different age groups, and we all play together, and hang out afterwards. I miss my friends, and I can’t wait to see them in real life when all this is over. But I’m glad we haven’t stopped our lessons, and we’re still seeing each other.’
From its office tucked away in an alley behind St Margaret’s House on Old Ford Road, Wish mental health charity has
Inside St Stephen’s Health Centre (just off the Roman Road) on the right-hand side of the entrance, you will see
Occupying the top two floors of St Paul’s Church Old Ford, Ability Bow is an accessible gym that caters for