Curry shop bags money for charity

I've got to say this is pretty sweet. You don't only enjoy eating it (curry) but also help people through it. Great article from yorkpress.co.uk.

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AN INDIAN curry shop is charging customers ten pence for each plastic bag and then handing the money to a York charity.

Yazl Surabhi Curry Shop, based in Lowther Street, The Groves, has decided to sponsor the John Lally International Foundation, which is trying to help some of the most marginalised poor people in India.

The foundation was set up in 2003 in memory of a York environmentalist, John Lally, who died in 1995 and it is creating a sustainable community centre in India, which will deliver health, education and employment initiatives, using a building with photo-voltaic panels to generate electricity, composting toilets and rainwater harvesting.

Gordon Campbell-Thomas, project advisor for the foundation, said that in 2005, five thousand people died in Mumbai during the monsoon, partly because of plastic bags blocking the drains.

He said: “We believe if we can bring about a greater awareness of the environmental problems and their consequences in the lives of people then we are fulfilling our purpose.

“We are very grateful to Yazl Surabhi for their actions in supporting us.”

Roshan, of Yazl Surabhi, which sells traditional homemade Indian and Sri Lankan curries and spices, said it would prefer customers brought their own bags, but the ten pence charge would be a direct way to support the project.

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