Food for London Now: Our new kitchen in Tower Hamlets can be part of London’s positive Covid response
Justin Byam Shaw
It was my ten year old son, Felix, who inspired me to start the Felix Project, with his typically generous response to seeing hungry children of his own age at a football tournament.
This morning 70,000 London children went to school hungry. I am expecting that our own research will shortly show this 2019 figure to be far higher. Child hunger in the Capital has soared over the past year, as unemployment has risen, following the Covid pandemic. One of my enduring memories of the last year is of a woman at a community kitchen in Hammersmith, stuffing her lunch into her coat pockets for her children.