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1 Goodgymer helped their local community in Tower Hamlets
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Tower Hamlets

Saturday 8th July 2023

Report written by Madhan

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I went early for my first community mission with Tower-Hamlets. Once I reached the Teviot Community Center, I can already see some volunteers wrapping the bunting around the fence. Once I introduced myself that I'm from GoodGym, they didn't recognize Goodgym. I said volunteer and then their eyes brightened. I was given some hardcore balloons to blow. They were pretty tough to blow. After blowing around 15 balloons, I managed to tie them to the fence where there are less leaves so that they won't pop

Next, we were putting the marquee tents and moved them around the play area. We put one game in each of the tents. Jenga is the only game that I can recognize. But most of them were for kids. There was one inflatable that needed filling with water. One of the volunteers, Bobby put me in charge of that. There is no pipe nearby. So I had to get water in a bucket from the kitchen area 100 feet away and need to fill the mini duck pool. After one attempt, I thought it was going to take at least 10 more buckets to fill it. I happened to find a garden hose nearby, but it was short. But it reduced the bucket carrying distance by 1/4th. Spent around 20 minutes doing that task before wrapping up my morning session with them.

Fresh chai was on the counter, which the lady at the counter explained, was brewed by a Pakistani lady for 1 hour. I got myself a karak chai and started walking towards my next task.


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