So UNICEF are now helping the UK to feed its' children?

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Maybe I am naive but I thought that as the 6th richest country in the world, the UK could manage that themselves.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-55348047

Why are the government letting people become destitute? It's worse than poverty now...there are families with absolutely no money at all...nothing...and that's rising.

Why is this happening?? AIBU to be very upset and worried about this?

I know. Let's stop donating taxpayers money to UNICEF, and give that to parents finding it difficult to feed their children in this country? I'm sure we would be a damn site better off and UNICEF the loser. I've never agreed with JRM before but I do this time.

I am sick to death having the country I live in, who donate more to so many worldwide charities and organisations, than most other countries as a percentage of their GDP, being humiliated by stunts like this.

It's a national sport to denigrate this country, so carry on 🤷🏻‍♀️

@goldenharvest Feeding hungry children isn’t a humiliating stunt. It’s feeding hungry children.

It is a national disgrace that there are so many hungry children in a country as wealthy as this one.

@goldenharvest

It’s true that we should be humbled as a nation by the fact that this is happening.

Does not make it a humiliating stunt though.

It’s just a harsh reality that has been long ignored by many, is now coming out into the open on a world stage.

@EnPoinsettia. Totally agree, all foreign aid should stop immediately and that money diverted to families here. India FFS? Get rid of Trident and stop paying into NATO. Stop paying the Fatcats in Brussels. Stop fighting foreign wars. The list is endless.

Our benefit system seems to be in disarray, the most vulnerable are struggling. If everyone got their entitlements it might help, although being a single, unemployed adult living alone must be a daily struggle.

With children, the benefits system working efficiently can provide enough for essentials, if rents are within local allowance levels. It might be useful if foodbanks had benefits advisors on hand, to ensure claimants can access the appropriate help. Those who have always been self supporting, with mortgages etc., must be finding the change in circumstances very worrying!