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2020/12/17 24 hour corner
【#Last 24 hours 12.17 UK】
The shame of the first world? Fasting birthday of millions of schoolchildren … for the first time in the history of UN child welfare, “relief for Britain”
“‘Let’s leave poverty’ … is a political option.” Britain, which has suffered multiple double teams between Brexit, the epidemic and the “Christmas crisis”, is now entering a year-end challenge where fear is greater than celebration. Among them, the problem of “child nutritional poverty”, which has exacerbated class pressure for the suspension of classes due to the epidemic, is due even more to the explosion of unemployment at the end of the year, long vacations and the rate of national unemployment, which expanded on Christmas Eve. According to statistics, up to 3.3 million British schoolchildren are in a ‘no eating’ hunger crisis. In light of this, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) also sent emergency relief to the UK on the 16th, preparing to help the 18,000 students in South London who most urgently need food and clothing to survive. into winter, although the scale of UNICEF support can only be seen as a “brick and stone sale”. However, this is the first time in British history that the organization needs to be “remedied” in the 74 years since it was founded. For this reason, British politics is also extremely embarrassed, even calling it “the most humiliating day of social incompetence, injustice …”.
▌ Backstory: “One Hundred Years of the Battle for a ‘Nutritious Lunch’ in Britain: Rashford’s Lunchbox for 1.3 Million Starving Schoolchildren)
The current ‘schoolchildren hunger problem’ in the UK is the result of decades of cumulative policies. The long-term cause is that the British welfare system cannot effectively deal with the nutritional problems of middle- and lower-class schoolchildren, and due to a series of austerity and budget efficiency goals. This greatly reduced the “School Nutritional Lunch Policy” since World War II. In the end, it not only directly affected and destroyed British eating habits, but also caused serious nutritional imbalances among school children.
This issue was widely discussed before the outbreak of the nutritious junk food lunch outbreak, which led to an increase in malnutrition and chronic illness in schoolchildren, however, after the impact of COVID-19 in 2020, it began in the spring. . Schools of all levels in the UK have suspended classes. Millions of British schoolchildren who originally depended on “public nutritious lunches” as the only balanced meals of the day suddenly fell into nutritional imbalances and even worsened in a structural starvation crisis of lack of food.
This exaggerated situation was once called upon by English soccer star Marcus Rashford to stand up and become a social movement to mobilize all people to “save the next generation.” However, in the process, the British Conservative government, especially Prime Minister Johnson & Johnson (Boris Johnson) I do, but I still resist the policy call to “provide the government to … actively provide meals” because the government already has issued special grants for the prevention of low-income epidemics, so there is no need to make another exception to recover from the nutritious lunch mess. The government has formed a bad habit that vulnerable families depend on the welfare of the government.
Yet in contrast to the heartfelt appeals of soccer stars, the Johnson & Johnson government has been violently condemned by the public for “why not eat meat.” Therefore, after repeated balance sheets, delays and public relations crises, the Conservative Party government has also made concessions many times and allocated special emergency budgets many times to subsidize and support schools at all levels to provide ” emergency meals for school-age children “after school suspensions, vacations, and semesters. plan”.
However, the relevant support still seems insufficient to solve the “fasting crisis” of millions of school children, because the grassroots and community volunteers that were originally used as dispatch units are also due to the long Christmas and New Years holidays and the current situation in the UK. The blockade of prevention of epidemics at the national level has encountered restrictions in the mobilization of labor, materials and distribution. The narrowness of the annual festive season has not diminished but has increased, only because of the serious epidemic situation in several places and the worsening of the closure of the city, it has not received more pressure, support and monitoring for the moment.
Until 16 December, UNICEF, the United Nations child welfare unit, received a top-of-the-line “emergency report” in the UK, urgently allocating an emergency rescue budget to help 18,000 starving schoolchildren. in South London. ‘Through the Cold Winter’: This grant is also the first time in history that the UK, known as the ‘advanced first world country’, has received large-scale help from its children from UNICEF since the founding of The United Nations.
In fact, UNICEF’s “Child Relief” for the UK this time, the initial funds and the number of recipients are not too large, only 250,000 pounds, about 18,000 people. The form of support is mainly cash grants and corporate coordination, including cooperation with the local social work initiative “School Food Matters”, and coordination of the intermediate fruit and vegetable logistics distributor Abel & Cole to donate 1.2 tons of fresh fruits to supplement the nutritional balance of the emergency lunch boxes. ——The main reason for pain in the social welfare circle and the political arena is emotional and political problems.
“What kind of government response is this? Our next generation has turned to the United Nations for help …”
The opposition Labor Party, which has been advocating for expanding free meals for school children, took the opportunity to scold him, believing that the Conservative government has already recognized the problem of school hunger, but has never been willing to confront the structural poverty crisis. After a whole year of procrastination, in the end, do you have to get UNICEF to rescue you? This is not just a matter of moral shame, but also deliberate incompetence and inaction. “Do you have to be able to compete with the kids on the field for life-saving resources … is this considered hard work? Just to be proud?”
“The British government has invested in it … Like the promises of nutritious lunches in the past, the government will ensure that children do not go hungry at Christmas,” replied the spokesman for the British Prime Minister’s residence.
“We can save the emergency, but there is no way to save the poor. The British government and society have yet to come up with long-term policies to solve the structural problem of food poverty.” The UNICEF UK official said: “It’s not just the UK. Children around the world. People should be born hungry.”
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