DIZZEE GOES BACK TO SCHOOL TO BEAT HUNGER

Nearly two million kids are going hungry in the UK during the Covid-19 lockdown – so rapper Dizzee Rascal is joining efforts to help get food to those who need it. The Bonkers star dropped in on Bygrove Primary School in Poplar, East London, recently to pack food parcels and serve meals to children and families, seeing first-hand the hardship that the virus has brought. He teamed up with Kitchen Social, the food poverty-busting programme of charity Mayor’s Fund for London, run by Big Issue Changemaker Clara Widdison, to help out. It comes as Food Foundation figures revealed that food insecurity has shot up by 250 per cent since the pandemic hit. That has triggered a jump in demand of almost 90 per cent for The Trussell Trust’s emergency food parcels while the…

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The Big Issue United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, 08-06-20

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