A soup kitchen in Leeds is seeing a hundred people a week coming to seek help as bills and food prices skyrocket.
Neruka's Soul Food Soup Kitchen, based out of the Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic, has been helping people in the Harehills area since 2009 but has seen an increase in the need for its services. Many new faces have also been seen in the kitchen as people struggle to make ends meet.
Neruka White runs the Soup Kitchen along with a group of volunteers and has said she is “broken” over the numbers of people needing help. During the pandemic, the numbers of people seeking help “quadrupled” at the kitchen to around 200 people a week before they began to decline again as things opened up.
