Tag: food insecurity

Kellanova, Albertsons join forces to fight food insecurity in southern Montana

Stuart Mitchell

Kellanova and Albertsons have teamed up to tackle the ongoing issue of hunger in the communities they serve. As part of its Kellanova Better Days™ Promise, Kellanova is donating $15,000 to Education Foundation for Billings Public Schools to support summertime meal programs for students in Billings. 7,000 Billings Public School students are reliant on free and reduced school meals for daytime nutrition. More than 1,000 students receive BackPack meals or access school pantries every week in Billings Public Schools for weekend and evening nutrition. Summertime meal programs are not accessible…

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New Data Shows UK Essential Workers Face Devastating Food Insecurity Levels

Stuart Mitchell

New data from The Food Foundation shows huge numbers of essential workers in the UK are struggling to access enough food. A quarter (24.9%) of households in which NHS or social care workers live experienced food insecurity in January 2023, as did more than a quarter (25.8%) of households home to food sector workers and more than a fifth (21.1%) of households home to education workers. These figures come in the midst of the NHS and education unions dispute with Government calling for wage increases to keep up with rising…

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Sodexo builds on its partnership with The Bread and Butter Thing to tackle food insecurity

Stuart Mitchell

The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation is extending its work with food redistribution charity, The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT), to help provide nutritious food for thousands of families in the North of England while at the same time significantly reducing food that would have been waste. The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) is an award-winning food redistribution charity. It runs over 60 mobile food clubs, taking affordable food into some of the UK’s most impoverished communities. But food is just the start. TBBT uses surplus food as a catalyst to…

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