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

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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.

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1:01.0	This is the first place of drop-off.
1:03.0	And today we're serving 552 meals.
1:07.0	Oh, the kids are so interested to know every single day when the wands here,
1:12.0	what's it today.
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1:18.0	I often seem to love things like
1:20.0	Jackie potatoes baked beans fast pasta is such a favourite.
1:25.0	This is Radheka Aire. We're on the road with her in South London, delivering hot meals to children taking part in holiday clubs.
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