"Hi! My name is Mia, and I am (unashamedly) poor."
The start of the month went with very few gigs, because of being sick.
Living is still taking money.
[a bundle of receipts and bills]
To make things easier, I decided to try the food aid of Takaisin Elämään Ry [a local, Christianity based association]
"I have visited the food aid distribution at Hyvinkää's Toimari before."
"- This is an open for everyone food aid every Monday at 12.30 pm. Some people come to queue an hour before the start.
- Take your own bag.
- No bullying, shoving or cutting the queue.
- Let the workers do their thing in peace."
Osku: "There is another queue dedicated to students on Thursdays, at 3 pm. Take your student card or other proof of being a student with you!"
There was a longer line compared to Hyvinkää's queue.
Families with children were put on their own line.
"The queue went on pretty fast. I think I got out of there in 15 minutes."
"Although it looked like some people were keeping a spot to their friends, too. I think that is cutting the line, kinda."
"In Toimari of Hyvinkää they used queuing numbers. In here, people got served in order of arriving."
From the food aid queue I got:
- sausage
- bag of potatoes
- bag of dill
- a couple of apples
- a couple of yogurts and similar milk products
- a box of large tomatoes
- ...and a small packet of octopus.
"Octopus was a bit of a surprise..."
[I have never tried it]
And one was able to take bread from crates by one's own need.
"I might try the food aid queue of Takaisin Elämään Ry again.
I give three stars out of five, and plus for the fact that yogurts and other milk products were not crushed to the bottom of the bag."
