The faux outrage being expressed over the UN agency stepping in to provide for hungry children in London is misplaced. Focus on the problem’s root causes – and bring about real and lasting change to end poverty.
As a teenager growing up in the Thatcher years in a working class coal mining community, I saw poverty and hopelessness everywhere – kids leaving school unable to read and write at 16, others going without food for days because their parent’s mental or physical health had totally broken down. All while the rest of us – those that were doing well and only living in relative poverty – ate jam sandwiches or beans on toast, or just toast if it was the night before payday.
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