'They hadn’t eaten all day': food banks tackle holiday hunger

Gap in school meals provision means demand spikes during summer just as donations dry up

It was around January this year that Sid Taylor first began to notice that children attending the youth club where he worked in Salford were going hungry. “They’d tell us they hadn’t eaten all day and we realised that it was a need in the local area,” he said.

Staff at the club, in Little Hulton, started offering the children eggs or beans on toast, often paying for it out of their own pocket. “I got my slow cooker out and started making stews and they loved it,” said Taylor. “I realised we were getting them to eat really healthy things, things 12-year-olds would normally turn up their noses at.”

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2LZZKkD