Monday January 18, 2021, 8:33 PM
Over twelve hundred bags of food were given out between September and December 2020 - compared to just 434 during the same period the year before. Credit: PA
The number of people using Jersey s Grace Trust food bank has almost tripled since the end of 2019.
Measures to reduce the spread of the virus have forced businesses to close and, as a result, hundreds of islanders have seen either their pay reduced, or lost their jobs completely.
Between September and December 2020 1,212 bags of food were given out by the Grace Trust charity.
This compares to just 434 during the same period the year before.
LAURA MCCULLOUGH is a poet and memoirist whose books include the forthcoming Women & Other Hostages (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), The Wild Night Dress, selected by Billy Collins in the Miller Williams Poetry Contest, University of Arkansas Press, Jersey Mercy (BLP), Rigger Death & Hoist Another (BLP) , Panic (winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award, Alice James Books), andshe has edited two anthologies, A Sense of Regard: essays on poetry and race (Georgia University Press, 2015) and The Room and the World: essays on Stephen Dunn (University of Syracuse Press, 2014). Her poems and prose have appeared in Best American Poetry, Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Writer’s Chronicle, and many other journals and magazines. Visit her at http://www.lauramccullough.org/.