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UNICEF has intervened in the United Kingdom’s food crisis.
This came for the first time in its 70-years of existence.
With COVID-19 exacerbating pre-existing food insecurity issues in many countries across the globe, the sixth largest economy on the planet has found it is no different. The UK has an estimated, 2.4 million children, living in “food-insecure” households according to UNICEF, the United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide, which has stepped in to help some of the 200,000 it claims have been forced to skip meals during the pandemic.
The UNICEF program Food Power for Generation COVID is a joint initiative with the food and farming alliance Sustain. The new drive aims to provide food to vulnerable families and children.
Head of the Food Poverty Programme at Sustain, Simon Shaw, said about the new initiative: “This partnership with UNICEF UK comes at a crucial point in the midst of heightened COVID-19 restrictions when many individuals’ resources will be depleted.”
The 25,000 pounds ($33,766) UNICEF grant will be given to the community project School Food Matters to provide more than 20,000 nutritious breakfast boxes over the two-week Christmas school holidays to families who live in Southwark, London. Providing help to around 1,800 families in the borough.
The founder and CEO of School Food Matters, Stephanie Slater, said: “We’re so grateful to UNICEF for providing this timely funding.
