Dear Letters Page.
Many of your readers may have seen briefly the We Care food Bank on this week’s
Despatches Breadline kids programme showing the impact of poverty and hunger
from a child’s perspective, how could anyone watching this fail to be moved?
We Care has been on the front line of hunger &
poverty for almost 2 years as the situation grows ever more desperate
with increasing numbers of people working 40 hour week who after rent, council
tax and transport costs have just £7 a week to buy food and live of..
As the summer holidays arrive teachers alarmed at the
number of kids coming to school hungry and going without food at weekends is
causing global alarm, whilst We Care food bank will not allow parents
worried sick about how they can put food on the table this holiday, as we did
Christmas, Go hungry..
We Care plan to hold breakfast and lunch clubs over the
holidays and urgently need safe space that we could use to serve breakfast 2
hours in a morning, and 2 hours for Lunch..we have a plan B if we cannot find a
kitchen, but we still need support donations and people to spread the word that
any Lewisham Parent presently getting free school meals can come and sign up at
the Food Bank .(www.lewishamfoodbank.com)
We need more collection point for food and donation tins, as we have to
buy 99% of all the food we need
We get no state aid, and it is to the Governments shame that
they have failed to listen to the Food Poverty lobby
We are extremely concerned about the impact of this stress
on parents mental health as well as general well being, as weekends clearly
many are feeding the kids what little they have and going without. What will it
take for the Public to say what is going on in their name is NOT acceptable and
they will not allow this neglect to continue.
To donate We Care are with the Co Op bank sort code 089299 account number 65659328
Ray Woolford
We Care Food Bank Founder
467 New Crosss Road Deptford SE14
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