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Ian Wright's Everyday People

Grenfell Hubb Community Kitchen

Ian Wright's Everyday People

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Society & Culture

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How do you carry on when you’ve lost everything? Today Ian meets Munira Mahmoud, a mother-of-two and survivor of Grenfell Towers who found an unexpected roadmap to move forward after disaster. Munira’s passion for cooking carried her through dark times. Months after the fire, she founded the Hubb Community Kitchen - a space for survivors to prepare meals, process grief and exchange stories. After surviving one crisis, the women of the Hubb Kitchen sprang into action again, this time supporting vulnerable families hit hard by the pandemic. If you like what you’ve heard so far and think you’ve got an amazing story to tell we’d love to hear from you, get in touch with us at everydaypeople@somethinelse.com Follow Munira’s adventures in food and her work within the community at @MuniraEats (Instagram) and www.kinamama.com And to learn how to prepare delicious recipes inspired by the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen head to https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1084233/the-hubb-community-kitchen.html. A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

How do you carry on when you've lost everything?

0:10.4

Our guest this week has an incredible story of resilience and transformation.

0:16.3

Back home, the way we were raised is like you don't look at the situation.

0:20.7

You find a way out of the situation.

0:22.6

Manera Mahmoud lived on the fifth floor of Grenfell Tower in West London.

0:27.6

In 2017, a fire ripped through the building, killing 72 people

0:31.6

and leaving hundreds homeless overnight.

0:34.6

It was Britain's most deadly domestic fire since the Second World War.

0:38.3

Three years on, there are still many unanswered questions about how and why it happened.

0:50.3

Minera's family escaped with just a close on their backs.

0:53.3

And like hundreds of others displaced by the fire,

0:55.6

she found herself in emergency shelter looking ahead to an uncertain future.

1:02.5

But from that place and through her passion for cooking,

1:05.9

Manera found an unexpected roadmap to move forward.

1:10.0

I want people to be happy.

1:11.9

I want to get people together

1:13.2

because it's the only way you understand each other,

1:15.5

you help each other, you support each other.

1:17.7

So I prayed before going to bed.

1:19.2

I said, please, God, show me the sign.

1:22.4

I'm Ian Wright, and this is everyday people.

1:26.4

And before we begin Manera's story, a warning that you might find this episode upsetting.

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