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Category: Food & Health
Universal Credit has led to people using foodbanks and parents can’t afford to feed their children
“It’s not easy for someone to ask for help and it’s not easy for someone to say ‘I can’t feed myself’.” Those are the words of one worker at a food bank in Essex. She sees people walk in every day in a desperate situation.
People are going for days without food – that’s normal now
Food bank manager, Chris Hardy, works with more than 30 volunteers to provide support to people in crisis in Sheffield. He tells Maryam Qaiser why cuts and austerity have left people unable to feed themselves.
‘So much more than growing food’ : Guardian readers on the joy of an allotment
To celebrate this year’s National Allotments Week, we [The Guardian] asked you to share pictures and stories of the bounty from your precious plots, many of which are run by local councils.
IFAN : Mapping the UK’s independent food banks
Since February 2017, the Independent Food Aid Network’s Sabine Goodwin has been working to identify independent food banks providing food parcels outside of the Trussell Trust network throughout the UK.
Christmas at a foodbank : How austerity-hit Britain celebrated the holidays
It’s one thing to read about poverty and quite another to see it up close. As a journalist I’ve lost count of the number of articles I’ve written about families suffering under the government’s austerity measures.
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- Coronavirus has tainted city life. Now I long for nature and community | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
- Being a coronavirus volunteer shows how our lives are stitched together | Clare Allan
- Thousands of rough sleepers still unhoused in England, say charities
- Here's my mum with the news! Radio DJs on the switch to home-broadcasting
- Coronavirus has exposed the reality of a world without work | Josh Cohen
- Home Office to hold on evicting asylum seekers during lockdown