Volunteers in the city have been praised for bringing light to the standard of free school meal parcels being offered to children in need in Liverpool.
As highlighted by the Echo, the Fans Supporting Foodbanks team posted the significant difference between the ones supplied by their volunteers to feed Liverpool’s most impoverished young people while schools are closed thanks to the latest Covid-19 lockdown, compared to ones being distributed via government-backed suppliers.
The Fans Supporting Foodbanks used Twitter to highlight the gap between their mobile pantry parcels compared to the ones back by taxpayer’s money, and are supposed to be used to feed a child for five days for the time they would usually be at school.
⭕ Exhibit A – A typical Mobile Pantry parcel given to our Members at our Pantry in Netherley today. Cost to member £3.50p
⭕ Exhibit B – A typical Government parcel for a School Child for a week. Cost to the Taxpayer £30.00p
Thats why we urge you to signhttps://t.co/zAMFQIF0xZ pic.twitter.com/zErVJX1H32— Fans Supporting Foodbanks (@SFoodbanks) January 13, 2021
The Fans Supporting Foodbanks, who are especially known for collecting donations from outside the grounds of Liverpool FC and Everton, recently created a pantry service in order to supply needy families with low-cost food, including fresh fruit and vegetables at an extremely reduced cost.
As well as the gap in the quantity of food, there’s a big difference in the cost. While taxpayer contributions of £30 go towards the current free meals per week, it costs just £3.50 for The Fans Supports Foodbanks pantry parcels.
Footballer and food poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford has stepped up to investigate how widespread this low quality government-backed food parcels are.
The food bank have launched their own petition calling for the “Right to Food” aiming to put it into UK law that the government is responsible for ensuring that impoverished individuals are given the basic access to nutrition.
