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Almost 10 million adults and 4 million children in the UK don’t have enough to eat and more than 2 million adults cannot afford to eat every day. That’s why former soldier Cocoa Fowler, who was inspired to create Food for Nought by picking up surplus food and now provides for 1,500 people a week, and others like him have set up local food banks and community larders. Deepa Chauhan’s day job used to be in marketing and PR, but now staving off hunger for the residents of Burnt Oak, a London suburb, has become a full-time occupation. St George’s Church of England primary school, which fed families during COVID, is teaching budgeting and basic cooking to the children and growing food on an allotment. Debbie Caulfield of Eglinton helped plant a community orchard of plum, pear and apple trees “so people can access fresh fruit and vegetables, grow some of their own and share that produce between each other, because poverty and food hunger do have a stigma attached to them.”
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