Jen Shah, star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, will be coming home earlier than expected after it was reported her prison sentence was reduced by a whole year.
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“I came to this area 40 years ago and never left,” Christine “Welshy” Gavano, 56, says of Ashton-under-Lyne as she’s preparing bags of fresh vegetables and cupboard staples that local families will pick up later in the day.
Mother-of-three and grandmother Christine volunteers at the Smallshaw Hurst Community Action Group, a local service helping people in Broadoak & Smallshaw, Hurst Cross and Hazel Hurst get through the cost of living crisis.
When she’s not at the action group, she will usually be found volunteering at the Action Group's pantry store, the Ashton United In the Community Luncheon Club for older people on Wednesdays and with Cedar Park Chefs.
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“I volunteer in the community most days,” Christine says. “I never stop, there’s no rest for me.”
The pantry store provides families with a weekly £3 food bag, alongside recipes for using ingredients in the bag with an estimation of just how much gas and electricity it will cost to make.
Christine says it is a service that has become even more essential in recent weeks, with families needing to know where every single penny goes. Families will also get to learn how to prepare nutritious meals, like chilli con carne or a lentil dahl.
“Families at the moment are finding it really, really hard,” Christine explains. “They’re deciding whether they sit in the cold and eat and whether they sit in the warm and don't get to eat anything.
"We’ve not seen poverty like this before, and some families on our estate are very low but we have got a good community - they can knock on anybody's door and we’ll look after them.”
Christine says that she has now referred many
Jen Shah, star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, will be coming home earlier than expected after it was reported her prison sentence was reduced by a whole year.
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