London, 16th December: United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) will feed the children in the United Kingdom for the first time.
Baaghi TV: According to reports, UNICEF has launched a domestic emergency response to help feed children hit by the COVID-19 crisis in the UK.
According to the reports from the international news website Sky News, since the first national lockdown in March, the number of families struggling to make ends meet and access food has grown, as the economy has suffered and vital jobs been lost.
In May, a YouGov poll commissioned by the charity Food Foundation found that 2.4 million children (17%) were living in food-insecure households. And by October it said an extra 900,000 children had been registered for free school meals.
UNICEF has now pledged a grant of £25,000 to the charity School Food Matters which will use the money to supply thousands of breakfast boxes over the two-week Christmas school holidays to vulnerable children and families in Southwark, south London.
