The owner of a Turkish restaurant is offering leftover food to homeless people.
Eddie Aygun, owner of Gezi Park in Wanstead High Street, decided to start offering his leftover soup and Turkish pizza to the homeless last week.
He said: “We are all human, and I just thought, what can I do to help people who really need it?
“In my city back in Turkey, we have a lot of Syrian refugees who are really hungry, so when people started coming in and asking for food, I knew I had to help them.”
Mr Aygun, from Chingford, said he sometimes helps six or seven homeless people a day.
He has been running the business with the help of his wife Meryem, 13-year-old son, Berdan, and two-year-old daughter Silin for two years.
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