This week there was a lovely news story in the West Midlands area, it involved a homeless outreach charity (As-Suffa) handing out free food to the homeless people in Walsall to celebrate Ramadan. The volunteers dishing out the food are observing Ramadan, a month-long fasting that is undertaken by Muslims during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. 

Nadeem Ashraf, project lead for As-Suffa in Walsall, said ”
it will be tough but the month of Ramadan is about understanding what it’s like to go without.” 40 meals per day for 30 days in a row will be provided to the Walsall homeless.

So, how could containers help these people handing out food for the homeless? The most obvious is that they could use the container to store the food and keep it secure. With container sizes varying from
10ft up to
40ft, there’s plenty of room for storage. But a more in depth idea would be to consider using a refrigerated container (also known as “Reefers”) if they wanted to keep the food fresh. To make it a bit easier, they could use a converted container and treat it as a catering unit. We have made
several catering units before, and here are a couple that we have previously done.

What other ways could we look at helping the homeless? We could consider creating homes from containers. This would require a bit of fundraising, but it’s more than possible. An average one bedroom bungalow is about the equivalent size of 4 x
20ft containers. We recently supplied a customer with some
flat pack units to build up their own home. We can even create hotels from containers. Travelodge is one of the most well-known hotel companies, they created a hotel made entirely out of prefabricated containers. If you would like to enquire into how containers can be used to benefit others, please contact us on 0333 600 6260.