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The Food Programme: Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem?

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

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Charity Akshaya Patra feed 1.76 million school children a day. Now it's coming to the UK.

Chef Romy Gill visits a holiday club in Croydon where Indian NGO Akshaya Patra are piloting a new way of delivering hot meals to UK children in the school holidays.

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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