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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Robert Dex

On The Breadline: How just the price of your morning coffee could be enough to help change lives

Unsung work:Momtaz, one of the volunteers at St Peters Community Wellbeing Project in Bethnal Green

(Picture: ES Composite)

If you ever needed proof that even your smallest donation can make a difference, ask the team at St Peters Community Wellbeing Project in Bethnal Green how the price of your morning coffee would be enough to mean the women they work with get vital help.

The centre helps elderly Bangladeshi women in east London, many having been referred there by their GPs, at their drop-in club where they exercise, work in the garden, cook and eat together.

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