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Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem?

Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem?

FromThe Food Programme


Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem?

FromThe Food Programme

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Oct 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As many UK schools break for half term, chef Romy Gill and Sheila Dillon focus on our national problem with holiday hunger.

Earlier this year, a UN special rapporteur found poverty in the UK to be "systematic" and "tragic". The Work and Pensions Committee published a separate report suggesting that while poverty rates are much higher in households where no-one works, almost one in 10 households with children where all adults work full-time are in poverty. In the school holidays, food budgets are stretched even further.

Now a charity from India, who regularly feed 1.76 million school children, says it can help. In this programme, Romy visits a holiday club in Croydon in South London where Akshaya Patra are working with local groups and trialling a new way of providing school meals. Could the organisation's success in India help solve a UK holiday hunger crisis?

Presented by Sheila Dillon and Romy Gill.
Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.
Released:
Oct 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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