Hot meals on the platform

Warszawa Centralna Station is located in the center of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The station is three stories high, large, beautiful and modern with a unique architecture. Surrounding the station are busy avenues with cars, trams and people.

Perhaps many people do not know that right in front of the station there is a corner for charity organizations, including members of the Vietnam - Poland Heart Association (often called the Heart Association). They distribute hot, free meals cooked by restaurants with donations from kind-hearted people in the Vietnamese community.

I was here on a March evening, the weather was 1-2 degrees Celsius and the wind was light. Just ten days ago, the snow was still falling heavily and the temperature was minus 10-15 degrees Celsius. By around 6 pm, there were already a few hundred people in a long line, especially the elderly and the disabled sitting on the stone steps.

Three cars stopped one after another, boxes of apples, bananas, tangerines, cakes, sandwiches and dozens of pots of hot soup were carried down and placed on tables. A car carrying Vietnamese volunteers with 50-100 hot meals also arrived shortly after.

Members of the Vietnam - Poland Heart Association distributed hot meals at Warsaw Centralna station on the evening of March 10.

An old man with a cane came to the Vietnamese volunteers, holding a lunch box in his hand. "Thank you for your help," he said in Polish. Everyone present was moved to tears. Only when they came here did they realize how many poor people there were in the magnificent capital. The old men sat there waiting for free meals even on bone-chilling snowy days.

At Warsaw Centralna station, for the past 3 years, the Heart Association has been distributing meals, no matter how harsh the weather is. Hot lunch boxes are warm love for the poor in the snowy land.

For the past 3 years, restaurants such as Linh Kuchnia, Azyatycka, Bar Thai Simple, U Kim restaurant, Tygon... have been persistently accompanying the association's executive board.

In particular, during the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the association brought hot meals and drinks to hospitals, security forces and district administrative committees.

On January 13, 2022, Polish Television broadcast a program about supporting doctors and nurses on TVP1 and spent 5 minutes praising the hot meals of the Vietnamese community. Hundreds of billboards across the streets of Warsaw thanked more than 60,000 meals and tens of thousands of bottles of drinking water handed out to doctors and nurses.

Since its establishment in 2020, in addition to providing free meals, the Heart Association has also helped several nursing homes, supported the unfortunate, helped small businesses in the Marywilska shopping mall fire, and joined hands to revive the hometown after Typhoon Yagi ...

The tradition of "Helping each other" is carried by Vietnamese people wherever they go, and they support even those of different origins.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/suat-an-nong-tren-san-ga-196250314213011714.htm