Guru Nanak's Free Kitchen – Serving the homeless in Vancouver

We call it the GNFK Monthly food drive as this event occurs once a month. On around the second Friday and Saturday of each month, GNFK volunteers serve meals at the First United Church on Main and Hastings Street in Downtown Vancouver.

Meals are served from 11am to about 2pm and volunteers are requested to be present from 10.30am to 2pm.

This event preparation starts the night before at Gurdwara Sukh Sagar in New Westminster BC. The delivery of fresh vegetables has arrived by then and volunteers spend the evening washing and chopping vegetables for this two day event. The next morning around 5am, volunteers come by and start to cook the vegetable curry, rice and rice pudding, it takes about 4 hours to prepare the 500 meals and once every dish has been approved by the GNFK head chef, the food is transferred to temperature controlled, food safe containers for the trip downtown.

The transport team at GNFK, have the important task of delivering the food downtown in time for the event and ensuring that all required daily supplies are also arranged and delivered downtown.

While the food is enroute, the GNFK event coordinator is also making their way downtown and starts preparing the facility for the volunteers and the arrival of the meals.

Volunteering:
You can assist in the monthly food dives by volunteering for the event. If you know in advance that you can make time on the Friday or Saturday of the event, sign-up to volunteer from 10am to 2pm and make a difference. Please note that we request all volunteers to sign-up through the website, so that we can manage volunteer numbers and ensure that every volunteer has a fulfilling task and makes a difference.

Click here to sign-up for our monthly GNFK event