Montreal’s Sikh Vision Association has been helping the community since 2011, usually doing food drives for the homeless in the summer and blood drives to support those in need.
Since March 20, the association has switched gears and is providing basic ingredients for cooking due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “People are really in need, a lot of people who are sick and actually affected by this COVID-19, we receive the calls saying they can’t go out,” volunteer Rupinder Singh says.
Three items are being handed out: flour, rice and beans. “It’s nowhere to be found in the shops, it’s backorder, these are basic ingredients that people need in order to cook,” said Parminder Singh Dulay, co-founder of the Sikh association.