A shop in Lisburn is offering free lunches to children in order to help families over the Christmas school holidays.
The Woodbrook Avenue Vivo store has said that it will be running the offer everyday from 10.30am to 2pm until the school term restarts in the hopes of providing a bit of extra support to families in the area.
Children will be able to get sausages and chicken bites with a side of fries and a fruit shoot until the offer ends next week.
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The store said on social media: "From tomorrow Wednesday 28th December until next week when all schools go back our hot food deli serve over will be giving away FREE Kids meals!
"We do understand how tough things can be & some kids probably only getting 1 hot meal & that’s a school dinner!!
"Choice between french fries with sausages or french fries and chicken bites. This will be available from 10.30am and 2pm!
"We do know that it’s not much of a choice tho we are a small family owned and run business and it’s the best we can offer sorry!!
"Every little helps…. No kid should ever have to go without."
Jim from the Woodbrook Avenue store said that the first day of the offer has gone very well, with customers coming from all over the city to visit them.
He said: "We have been overwhelmed with the numbers of people coming to the shop and the kind comments that we have received.
"We felt that putting on the offer for children would be a good way of helping local families during the holidays, because we know how tough it has been for everyone at the minute and nobody really knows what people are going through.
"Our deli counter has been doing well over the past few months and now seemed like the best time to do something to help the community and do something to help local children and their families.
"We have had people coming from all over Lisburn to see us today which shows you the need that some people have and we are just happy to do our bit to help out."
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