Today, on World Food Day (16 October), we are asking everyone to think about poverty at home as well as abroad. Recent data from the United Nations suggests that more than 8 million people here in the UK struggle to put enough food on the table.
As organisations and individuals working every day to support people struggling to put food on the table locally, we’re passionate about solving this issue. We provide life-changing support to thousands of people locally affected by hunger every year, but we know that voluntary action alone isn’t enough. We need long term solutions to hunger and poverty.
This isn’t an issue only experienced by a few. Working parents miss meals so that their kids can eat and vulnerable people rely on the support of charities on a daily basis to get a meal. With just over a month to go before Mrs May’s first Autumn Statement as Prime Minister, we hope to see real action to meet the needs of people facing these challenges.
That’s why we’re joining with the UK’s leading charities working with people affected by hunger to call for an urgent, national conversation about what it will take to end hunger in the UK, and what role government and others need to play to make this possible.
We’re asking politicians, as well as anyone who donates to a food bank, volunteers or works at a local community project or who simply cares about tackling hunger to take part in the Big Conversation about what it will take to end hunger in the UK and what government needs to do to make this a reality, which is launching today.
If you had to ask Theresa May to do one thing to tackle UK hunger, what would it be?
Step up to the plate and join the Big Conversation using #endhungeruk
- Write one thing that Government needs to do to end hunger on a paper plate
- Take a selfie with your plate
- Share your photo with us and with others on Twitter, on Facebook or by email > [email protected]
- Ask your friends, colleagues or congregation to do the same!