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British crisis getting worse. Many stores have decided to close in the cities of Stoke-on-Trent and Chatham as it becomes increasingly difficult to make a profit in a context of high inflation.
Millions of Brits are willing to skip meals to pay their skyrocketing electricity bill. The Money Advice Trust report found that around 20% of UK adults or 10.9 million people are in arrears on their electricity bills, an increase of 3 million or around 45% since March 2022.
Not only that, 5.6 million residents are willing not to eat in the last three months due to the cost of living crisis. The survey was conducted on 2,000 British adults in August 2022.
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“This includes skipping meals once a day or not eating at all on certain days,” the report said.
The latest principals across the UK are reporting that children are starving to the point of chewing gum amid the cost of living crisis. Quite a few of them choose to go to the playground at lunchtime because they can’t afford to buy food.
Many schools in the UK have seen excruciating levels of starving children. A school in Lewisham, south-east London, reported that a child pretended to eat from an empty lunchbox because he didn’t want his friends to know there was no food in his house.
“We hear about children who are so hungry that they are eating rubber (erasers) in school. Children who come in have not eaten anything since lunch the day before. The government has to do something,” said Naomi Duncan, Chief Executive Chefs in Schools. .
In the UK, students are entitled to free school meals for those whose parents earn less than £ 7,400 or IDR 120.78 million (exchange rate of IDR 16,322) per year. According to the charity Child Poverty Action Group, there are still 800,000 poor children who are not on the list.
A community group that delivers emergency food packages, Oxford Mutual Aid, said it had to reduce delivery days because hundreds of volunteers were unable to cope with the growing demand for help.
“We are struggling to keep up with the demand. Every day I hear about the level of distress people are experiencing. Every day I talk to families who are terrified because they don’t know where to go,” said coordinator Muireann Meehan Speed.
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