Given how difficult a year 2020 has been for all of us, it’s easy to forget that there are still good people out there doing kind things for others. That’s why it’s so heartwarming that a story is going viral this week about a group of volunteers teaming up to give hundreds of hot meals to stranded truck drivers in the United Kingdom.

When members of the Sikh temple Gravesend Gurdwara got word that countless truck drivers were stranded in Dover due to a border closure, they knew they had to do something. They sprang to action immediately after getting a call about the truck drivers around noon, and they joined forces with local authorities including the Kent Police and Kent County Council. Within just a few hours, they were able to deliver an astonishing 800 hot meals to the truck drivers.

“They [Khalsa Aid] got in touch this morning about 12 o’clock and by 2:30pm they came to collect the food,” said Jagdev Singh Virdee. “We made some phone calls to get volunteers together because we are already doing Langar, where we deliver to vulnerable people.”

The volunteers banded together to make 500 chickpea curries and 300 mushroom and pasta dishes. Khalsa Aid founder Ravinder Singh picked up the meals from the temple and delivered them to the hungry truckers with the help of a Kent Police escort. Over 1,000 truck drivers are currently stranded in the area, filling roadsides as well as the airport.

“An incredible thank you to Gravesend Gurdwara for providing 800 hot meals for the lorry drivers stranded in Dover today,” the National Sikh Police Association UK said in a statement. “Our NSPAUK Kent lead partnered with Langar Aid Khalsa Aid and Kent Police to facilitate the supplies getting to the stranded lorry drivers. It takes a partnership approach to make such things possible and we are happy to support where we can. Thank you to the volunteers who have given their free time to distribute the food today and no doubt will over the next few days.”

God bless the members of this community for stepping up in such a big way to help some truck drivers when they needed it most!