A Glasgow restaurant has invited Glasgow's homeless and vulnerable people to its Merchant City branch tonight (Monday) for a free meal.
Charcoals on the Trongate is owned by Asad Iqbal and managed by Muhammad Sultan.
Glasgow Live spoke to Muhammad, who visits Pakistan every year to feed poverty-stricken families to coincide with the month of Ramadan - and it's a kindness which the restaurant has chosen to extend to those in need in our city.
To mark Eid ul-Fitr, the end of the monthly fast, Charcoals invited all homeless and vulnerable people to come to Charcoals Merchant City branch after 6pm to collect a special meal prepared by the staff.
Sultan has been helping the homeless in Glasgow for years now by supplying soup kitchens. He was born in Dubai before he moved to Glasgow and his parents are from Lahore, Pakistan, but was shocked to see the deprivation there when visiting as a child and vowed one day he would return and help.
Speaking from Lahore, Sultan said: “My aim and my mission is no one should sleep hungry and I wish I could do more but the feelings I get form helping I cannot express.
“Over the month we feed about 800 people every day with our food packages which consist of chapati flour, lentils, oil, rice, sugar and syrup.
“They are made up for families of four and designed to last the month – we also give them a small amount of cash.”
As well as making these food parcels Sultan also gives out daily hot meals to poor communities.
He added: “We also make lots of rice and take to the road.
“We’ll have a big pot with chicken and rice which feed another 300 people every day so with the parcels and the hot food we have managed to feed 9,000 already this year.”
All homeless and vulnerable people can collect their special meal tonight from 6pm tonight (Monday) at 74 Trongate.
