UNICEF Will Help Feed U.K. Children for First Time in Its History
On 12/16/20 at 7:13 AM EST
For more than 70 years UNICEF has worked across 190 countries to support the world s most vulnerable children but for the first time in its history, the COVID crisis has seen the United Kingdom added to the list.
Hunger among children hit by the COVID-19 crisis in Britain is a domestic emergency , the charity said. It will help support children and families at risk of food insecurity this Christmas with £25,000 ($34,000) of funding for a project to supply almost 20,000 breakfasts to children during the school holiday.
Labour MPs branded the siutation a “disgrace” for one of the richest countries in the world.
Unicef will help to feed the children of about 1,800 south London families over the school holidays as part of its first-ever domestic emergency response.
The families in Southwark – who are struggling as a result of the Covid-19 crisis – will receive 18,000 breakfast boxes over Christmas, funded by a £25,000 Unicef grant to the School Food Matters charity.
Its food programme, which is also facilitated by Southwark Council and Southwark Food Action Alliance, will provide an additional 6,750 breakfasts to families over the February half-term break.
Unicef decribed the coronavirus pandemic as the most urgent crisis to affect 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.
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