Absolutely. Buzzing.
Zoom call with @SFoodbanks, @IanByrneMP, and @Kartik__Raj #righttofood (wow)
These guys are REAL heroes and they dont even know it - their hard work and passion keeps families afloat, and dignity intact, and here's a thread about the importance of this:
Zoom call with @SFoodbanks, @IanByrneMP, and @Kartik__Raj #righttofood (wow)
These guys are REAL heroes and they dont even know it - their hard work and passion keeps families afloat, and dignity intact, and here's a thread about the importance of this:
2 Adversity hits the poorest hardest - and that includes natural disasters, accidents like Titanic, and austerity: cuts per head are highest for places with the sickest people, especially in the North. Infants of families who are in poverty are more likely to die. 
3 We know from @CPAGUK and others that rates of child poverty are unacceptably high - around 1 in 3 kids pre covid, and who knows what now... and that poverty impacts the things we take for granted - birthday presents, school uniform, and even food
4 Children will be hit hardest by the post-covid recession - we know this from what @UNICEF learned after the Banker's Recession.
Invest to keep families AND businesses afloat.
Before you start, there is in fact a magic money tree - its called "taxes".
Invest to keep families AND businesses afloat.
Before you start, there is in fact a magic money tree - its called "taxes".
5 Compared with Norway, families in the UK have less financial resilience and are more vulnerable, and this means people will go without.... CHILDREN will go without.
6 Going without costs lives... mortality related to infection and cot death are high in the UK, and we now know that #COPD is in many people a condition of childhood, manifest in adulthood. Adverse exposures in childhood shortens lives #povertykillschildren
7 Food insecurity is an adverse exposure we shouldn't be seeing in 2020 in the UK. And yet there are more foodbanks than @McDonalds... @TrussellTrust activity has doubled this year
Before people jabber on about "get a job", 70% of kids in poverty have at least one working parent
Before people jabber on about "get a job", 70% of kids in poverty have at least one working parent
8 So the main reason is that people can't afford food... there is a totally bollocks narrative that healthy food is cheaper. It isn't. Some families literally only have a kettle to heat up food anyway. Kids in poverty have restricted opportunities to be healthy
9 The rise in child obesity is all in the poorest families. There is a well described paradox where the less food you have available the more you are at risk of obesity - you just need to get through the day. Again, restricted opportunities to be healthy.
10 And living in poverty fundamentally changes the molecules in your DNA. Let that sink in.
Epigenetic changes associated with poverty change the very way in which your frigging DNA works. Being poor is shackling children from before they are even born
Epigenetic changes associated with poverty change the very way in which your frigging DNA works. Being poor is shackling children from before they are even born
11 Take #asthma as an example - every cell, every chemical involved, can be affected by epigenetic changes. Being poor is changing the way that these children's airways work at a cellular level
12 Loads more issues which won't fit in this thread!
So by enabling people to have enough food to keep afloat, @SFoodbanks keep children alive, and ensuring their #righttofood. And that's why it was genuinely humbling meeting them today, and making new friends and colleagues
So by enabling people to have enough food to keep afloat, @SFoodbanks keep children alive, and ensuring their #righttofood. And that's why it was genuinely humbling meeting them today, and making new friends and colleagues
@IFAN_UK did a great report as well - it’s mind blowing to see the data coming out of foodbanks (and the robustness of their reports)
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