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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
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
