Here Is How Khalsa Aid Is Helping Drivers Stranded At UK Border With Hot Meals Including Pizza

For the past few days, thousands of trucks and their drivers have been stuck on the roads, on both sides of the UK's border, due to the sudden travel restrictions imposed there because of the spread of the new strain of COVID-19.

The truck drivers, who are from across Europe, were eying to reach their homes before Christmas, but that has become unlikely for most of them, even after some relaxations have been made for the travel.

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Currently, countries like France are allowing drivers with a negative COVID-19 test result to enter the country.

But for most of the wait is continuing, on the roads in the peak of the winter season.

Khalsa Aid stepping up as always

Taking note of their plight, UK-based Sikh charity, Khalsa Aid stepped forward to deliver hot meals to thousands of truck drivers stranded in southern England by the border with France.

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Local British media reported that on Tuesday a Sikh charity whose members cooked hot meals for long hours, delivered close to a thousand meals of chickpea rice and mushroom pasta to a makeshift trucker driver camp organised in Kent.

Apart from the home-cooked meals, they also returned to Kent with pizzas donated by local restaurants for the stranded truck drivers, most of whom are eager to get back to their families for Christmas.

"1000 pizzas kindly donated by the @dominos Dhillon Group franchise (Kent) for the truck drivers stranded in #OperationStack! We are blessed with amazing donors and supporters. #Borders Closed," Khasla Aid tweeted.

"We've got another 400 meals coming, kindly donated by another business," it added.

We are ready to go !

1000 Pizzas for the truck drivers caught in #OperationStack !

We are working with @kent_police, @HMCoastguard & @HighwaysSEAST ! pic.twitter.com/FSqdtk6zJS

¡ª Khalsa Aid (@Khalsa_Aid) December 23, 2020

Members of Langar Aid, an international charity also joined the Sikh community in Kent as well as the local police and coastguard, to distribute the meals.

Khalsa Aid

A volunteer of the charity delivering the meals said, "Some were distressed - they want to know when the borders will open and they can go home"

The Sikh charity is also involved in various other relief works including in countries like war-torn Syria.

Khalsa Aid

Khalsa Aid has also been at the forefront of providing free langar and other facilities to the thousands of farmers who are traveling from various parts of the country to Delhi and those who are already at the borders of the national capital.