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.
#Chances4Children: Unicef UK rolls out support through first ever domestic grant Fiona Simpson Wednesday, December 16, 2020
A food distribution charity has begun rolling-out support to disadvantaged families funded by Unicef UK’s first ever domestic emergency grant.
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Unicef has provided grants to feed hungry UK children for first time in 70 year history
The charity said the pandemic had brought on the biggest food crisis for children since WWII
PICTURED: Children at Greenacres Primary Academy in Oldham, northern England (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)
UNICEF HAS pledged over £700,000 in emergency funding to feed hungry children in the UK, for the first time in their 70 year history.
Speaking on LBC’s breakfast show, Anna Kettley, Director of Programmes at Unicef UK, said: “We know that the coronavirus pandemic is the most urgent crisis affecting children since the Second World War and it is ending children’s lives everywhere, including right here at home.”
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Unicef has launched a domestic emergency response in the UK for the first time in its more than 70-year history to help feed children hit by the Covid-19 crisis. The UN agency, which is responsible for providing humanitarian aid to children worldwide, said the coronavirus pandemic was the most urgent crisis affecting children since the second world war.
A YouGov poll in May commissioned by the charity Food Foundation found 2.4 million children (17%) were living in food insecure households. By October, an extra 900,000 children had been registered for free school meals.
Unicef has pledged a grant of £25,000 to the community project School Food Matters, which will use the money to supply 18,000 nutritious breakfasts to 25 schools over the two-week Christmas holidays and February half-term, feeding vulnerable children and families in Southwark, south London, who have been severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
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.