Food, energy and child care costs are rising beyond many families’ capabilities and surviving is proving to be nigh on impossible according to ITV “Tonight Show". It has been estimated that 4 million people are underfed.
One case of working mother Nadine, whose husband is in military training, feeds her children and has very little to eat herself. She was saved by waste campaigner “Tristram Stuart, and a Christian charity called the “Trussell Trust”.
Trussell has established food banks, which have been supplying three days of food to the needy. Another idea to beat poverty was hatched four years ago in Todmorden, Yorkshire, Incredible Edible grows fruit, herbs and veggies in public areas.