While we may be shocked with reports of 17% of children in the UK going hungry, neither @UNICEF’s emergency food aid nor the negative reaction from the UK government is out of the ordinary. 1/6

Humanitarian agencies are used to dealing with situations where governments are unwilling or unable to act, but yet are still hostile to assistance.

So what does UNICEF’s support to a school feeding programme in one of world’s largest economies tell us? 2/6

Yet again, we learn that hunger is not due to failures in food supply, but due to political failures that allow hunger to happen. 3/6

Vulnerability, marginalisation and lack of political do not only exist in low resource countries, but are found in all situations of gross inequality. 4/6

That even in the most developed local markets, aid agencies are resistant to cash. 5/6

That UN agencies are capable of using local humanitarian actors without having international NGO intermediaries even for small grants of £25,000. 6/6

Background info https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/16/unicef-feed-hungry-children-uk-first-time-history