eats
alone on 
our watch.
We bring the food, the clothes and the music to families who have less. Then we pull up a chair and stay.
See our outreaches01 · Who we are
Giving Back with Evie takes food, clothes and essentials to families who have less, then stays to eat, dance and celebrate with them. It started in 2019 with one pot of jollof, a borrowed bus and six friends. Today it is 190 volunteers and one very long table.
2025
02 · Story of the month
At our Back to School drive he tried on his first pair of sandals, looked down for a long time, then ran the whole way home to show his mother. He is nine. He wants to be an engineer. He now has a maths set to prove it.
Read his story03 · Outreaches
04 · A day on an outreach
Volunteers load the bus. Somebody always brings puff-puff.
No queues, no megaphones. We walk in and learn names.
Long tables, hot jollof, cold zobo. Every plate by hand.
The DJ starts. The grandmothers win. Every single time.
Names, numbers, next visit. We come back.
05 · Voices
“They didn’t hand me food and leave. They sat down and ate with my children.”
“I came to pack boxes for one Saturday. That was two years ago.”
“The aunty with the pink shirt danced with me. She remembered my name the next time.”
06 · Where we’ve been
We go back to the same places, so faces become friends.
07 · From the field
08 · A note from Evie
“I grew up in a house where the pot was always bigger than the family. That is all this is: a bigger pot, and more people at the table. Thank you for pulling up a chair.”
Evie
Founder
Next stop: Durumi camp, 14 November. There’s a seat with your name on it.
Come with us