Marcus Rashford and Sir Alex Ferguson tackle the hunger game
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In Britain, about 2.4 million children live in families who cannot afford all the food they need. During the pandemic, up to 8.1 million Britons have struggled to pay for food.
Manchester United’s star striker Marcus Rashford and former manager Sir Alex Ferguson credit their tough upbringings with inspiring them to fight childhood poverty. Rashford and Sir Alex have joined forces to support The Times Christmas Appeal which is raising money for the charity FareShare. We speak with two Times journalists who interviewed the football icons.
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Alice Thomson, columnist and interviewer for The Times.
Rachel Sylvester, columnist and interviewer for The Times.
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| 1:10.0 | Food Poverty. |
| 1:12.0 | This morning I had to go to the food bank. |
| 1:19.0 | I've been trying to keep my head above water and just still be living a normal life, but I've been really struggling. |
| 1:25.4 | I don't want everyone knowing that I'm failing. We've basically got about |
| 1:29.8 | 80 pounds to live on per two weeks. |
| 1:33.4 | They're growing boys, they need clothes. |
| 1:35.4 | So it's hard, it is hard. |
| 1:37.4 | Why should people have to come here for food? |
| 1:40.5 | I mean, is this Great Britain? |
| 1:41.7 | What's great about this? |
| 1:46.0 | The preschool meals and food vouchers that kept some families afloat in normal times were suddenly stopped. The prospect of extra work for struggling |
| 1:56.6 | parents all but vanished. Children were going hungry. |
| 2:04.0 | Almost 80% of school support staff surveyed by the Union unison |
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