“They are not as bright as they used to be,” a mother who couldn't provide dinner for her children said. “They are hungry.” Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON – When her two sons ask for snacks she can no longer afford, Ms Aislinn Corey, a preschool teacher in London, lays down a blanket on the floor and plays “the picnic game”. She takes an orange or an apple collected from her preschool’s food bank and slices it in thirds to be shared.She says dinners are often reduced to “pasta pasta pasta”, and she sometimes skips the meal entirely so there is more food for her children.
“It is harder because the past 10 years have been so awful,” said Dr Greg Thwaites, an economist at the Resolution Foundation, an independent research institute focused on living standards. In London, the Hackney Food Bank provided meals for 647 children in December, up from 330 a year earlier. Some schools have started providing free meals for every student, not just those who qualify for them through the welfare system, and a headmaster in a deprived area of the city said that more children and their parents had started relying for their breakfast on the free toast the school gives out at the front gate.
On a recent night, Ms Alicia Marcano, 46, a nurse, headed for the first time into a food bank in the east London neighbourhood of Hackney. She listened carefully to volunteers’ instructions, then, with her eyes downcast, started packing up cans of beans, biscuits and pasta. “This is new ground for me,” she said.
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