The Food Programme

Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem?


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As many UK schools break for half term, chef Romy Gill and Sheila Dillon focus on our national problem with holiday hunger.

Earlier this year, a UN special rapporteur found poverty in the UK to be "systematic" and "tragic". The Work and Pensions Committee published a separate report suggesting that while poverty rates are much higher in households where no-one works, almost one in 10 households with children where all adults work full-time are in poverty. In the school holidays, food budgets are stretched even further.

Now a charity from India, who regularly feed 1.76 million school children, says it can help. In this programme, Romy visits a holiday club in Croydon in South London where Akshaya Patra are working with local groups and trialling a new way of providing school meals. Could the organisation's success in India help solve a UK holiday hunger crisis?

Presented by Sheila Dillon and Romy Gill.

Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.

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