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UNICEF supporting emergency food aid for British children over holidays
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 17 - 12 - 2020

Thousands of families in the United Kingdom impacted by COVID-19 are to receive "one-off...emergency" food assistance from UN Children's Fund UNICEF over the upcoming holiday period and beyond, it has announced.
It is the first time in the organization's more than 70-year-history that it has stepped in to help the country's most vulnerable, said Anna Kettley, director of programs at UNICEF UK.
The agency has partnered with a group called Sustain and provided grants to 30 community projects and aims to reach between 10,000 and 15,000 young people until the program ends in April 2021, it said on Wednesday.
Just over $1 million will be made available in total.
This includes a $34,000 pledge to help deliver breakfast meals to 13,500 children at 25 schools in south London over the two-week Christmas break, and during the February half-term holiday.
"This funding will help build stronger communities as the impact of the pandemics worsen", said Kettley, before calling for a longer-term solution "to tackle the root causes of food poverty, so no child is left to go hungry".
UNICEF described the coronavirus pandemic as "the most urgent crisis affecting children since World War II".
Even before the pandemic struck, it said that an estimated 2.4 million UK children were already food-insecure.
The situation has worsened since March 2020 and families have struggled to make ends meet and access food, amid a global economic downturn and job losses.
The food support scheme — in conjunction with local partner School Food Matters —- builds on a breakfast scheme that was launched earlier this year.
It ran for 18 weeks during the lockdown and the summer holidays, providing vital support and nutrition to children in need, UNICEF said.
"Community initiatives will play an essential role and through ‘Food Power for Generation Covid'", said Kettley. "We hope to support families at the local level so that children can continue to eat well during this crisis period."
In response to accusations from a senior member of the government in the House of Commons on Thursday, Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, that UNICEF's initiative was a "political stunt", Kettley said that the organization was "responding to this unprecedented crisis and building on our 25 years' experience of working on children's rights in the UK with a one-off domestic response, launched in August, to provide support to vulnerable children and families around the country during this crisis period.
"In partnership with Sustain, the food, and farming alliance, over 700,000 pounds of UNICEF UK funds is being granted to community groups around the country to support their vital work helping children and families at risk of food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic.
"UNICEF will continue to spend our international funding helping the world's poorest children. We believe that every child is important and deserves to survive and thrive no matter where they are born."


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