Food cabinet with a knuckle sausage

Knew sausages, coffee and biscuits from the church. The Advent church in Rozenburg has had a food cabinet for a week now. hang. In the white locker in the side portal of the church people can buy food. so others can get what they need.

The public larder was an idea of Betty Haveman and Henny van Onselen, of the Church's Municipal Building Committee. "We had a piece in the Nederlands Dagblad seen about such a locker in Purmerend", explains Haveman. out. "That's what we liked and wanted here, too." Van Onselen: "We have requested permission from the church council, because of course the church wall hangs."

Retired sailor, pilot and amateur woodworker Martinus Roorda became asked to build the locker. "He's an artist," finds Van Onselen. On the white-painted cabinet with glass window is now the text "give what you can spare, take what you need. In between are merry painted smileys.

Happy

"For the cheerful giver", explains Roorda. Both ladies add in chorus please: "And the cheerful recipient." Afraid of abuse of the locker are not the Roseburgers. Haveman:,,If that happens one time,well,that's-- just like that. But we don't want to assume that."

At the moment there are several kinds of tea and coffee in the cupboard, cans tuna fish, knucklewurst, chickpeas and corn, pasta and crispbread. And syrup cakes. "If the young see them, they're gone," Van Onselen knows smiling. "Well, then they're having a party, too."

Last Saturday there was a clothing fair in the church, where there were also toys, books and little things were sold. Haveman: "There were also people who ...what they took with them for the locker."