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AFril Helping Hand Foodbank aims to reduce food insecurity and its consequences ensuring 50 destitute refugees and asylum seekers children don’t go hungry by distributing weekly food parcels, toiletries, baby items, bedding and clothes and also by providing friendship and social interaction
Situation
Food poverty. The Helping Hands Foodbank provides essential, basic foodstuffs for 50 children aged 0-16 years old and 25 families. Twenty out of the twenty five Foodbank members are single mothers with an average of two children, living mostly in one room in hostels. More than half of the foodbank's users are asylum-seekers who survive on £ 5 per day and cant buy essentials like food, toiletries. The remainder are migrants with no recourse to public funding who cant work/access benefits.
Solution
The foodbank focuses on relieving food insecurity and addressing complex long-term issues. As well as picking up essential groceries, our mothers can talk to advisers, socialise, introduce their children to other kids, discuss healthy eating plans, such as one-pot cooking, food budgeting and share knowledge focused on good nutrition and its role in both physical and mental health. It's not just handing out food, it's socialising, building support networks and accessing local services.