Unicef helps feed hungry children ‘as part of first UK response’
PA
16 December 2020, 12:16 pm
Unicef is helping to feed hungry children in the UK as part of what is said to be the charity’s first domestic emergency response in its 70-year history.
Some 1,800 families struggling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will receive breakfast boxes over the Christmas school holidays, the charity School Food Matters said.
The charity said the initiative has been made possible by a grant from Unicef UK, which represents the first time the organisation has developed a domestic emergency response.
The families in Southwark, south London, will receive 18,000 breakfasts which will be distributed by schools for two weeks when they break up.
The United Nations humanitarian aid agency Unicef has launched an emergency response in the UK for the first time in its 70-year history.
Unicef will help feed children left in difficulty as a result of the coronavirus crisis by providing food boxes to struggling families.
The UN agency launched the domestic emergency response for families in Southward, south London, in reaction to the unprecedented situation brought on by the Covid crisis.
It comes after Unicef compared the plight of children left hungry due to the pandemic to the effect of the Second World War on youngsters.
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner called the need for Unicef s intervention a disgrace , adding: It should have never come to this.
Unicef is helping to feed hungry children in the UK as part of the charity’s first domestic emergency response in its 70-year history.
Some 1,800 families struggling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will receive breakfast boxes over the Christmas school holidays, the charity School Food Matters said.
The Food Power for Generation Covid initiative, in partnership with Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, and the Southwark Food Power Alliance, has been made possible by a £25,000 grant from Unicef UK.
It represents the first time the organisation has developed a domestic emergency response.
Unicef said the coronavirus pandemic is the most urgent crisis affecting children since the Second World War.
Unicef is helping to feed hungry children in the UK as part of the charity’s first domestic emergency response in its 70-year history.
Some 1,800 families struggling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will receive breakfast boxes over the Christmas school holidays, the charity School Food Matters said.
The Food Power for Generation Covid initiative, in partnership with Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, and the Southwark Food Power Alliance, has been made possible by a £25,000 grant from Unicef UK.
It represents the first time the organisation has developed a domestic emergency response.
Unicef said the coronavirus pandemic is the most urgent crisis affecting children since the Second World War.
Unicef is helping to feed hungry children in the UK as part of the charity’s first domestic emergency response in its 70-year history.
Some 1,800 families struggling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will receive breakfast boxes over the Christmas school holidays, the charity School Food Matters said.
The Food Power for Generation Covid initiative, in partnership with Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, and the Southwark Food Power Alliance, has been made possible by a £25,000 grant from Unicef UK.
It represents the first time the organisation has developed a domestic emergency response.
Unicef said the coronavirus pandemic is the most urgent crisis affecting children since the Second World War.