www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / World

Food banks on the rise in Britain

By Agence France-Presse in Camborne | China Daily | Updated: 2015-03-30 07:40

Clutching a bag of pasta, canned pears and beef, David Kirk leaves a food bank in one of Britain's poorest corners - his sixth visit in a few weeks.

"It's certainly a big help," the tattooed 54-year-old said as he loaded the free supplies into his car in the town of Camborne in Cornwall in the southwest of England.

"My wife has been diagnosed with cancer, and I'm not able to work at the moment," Kirk said.

The growing numbers of Britons turning to food banks run by charities to get by has become a key political issue weeks from a May 7 general election.

The first question thrown at Prime Minister David Cameron in a prime time television grilling on Thursday was about how many food banks had sprung up during his five years in power.

Cameron parried, saying his government had created jobs to lift people out of poverty and rejected the idea of a "broken Britain".

But the reality looks different at a food bank in the backroom of a church in Camborne on a peninsula famous for its beaches, holiday homes and rich history.

It is less known for being one of the country's poorest regions, with average wages of around $21,300 a year - five times lower than in London, according to European Union data.

Near a piano covered with a blanket and old Bibles, volunteers fill bags with vegetables, tea, rice and other staples.

Nicola Bacca, 32, came with her daughter and said her benefits had been cut "through no fault of our own".

"That left us with very little money," said Bacca, who has four children and complained that all of her money was used up paying bills.

"Food is the final thing on the list and with four children? You got to feed them."

The Camborne food bank opened in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis.

A former tin-producing town, Camborne has never truly recovered from the closure of its mines - their remains still visible under encroaching vegetation.

The poverty here is no anomaly.

Britain has at least 850 food banks and more and more are opening every year, according to a parliamentary inquiry into hunger in the country released last year.

Over the 2013-14 tax year, the Trussell Trust, which runs around 400 food banks, served meals to 913,000 people, compared to 61,500 in 2010-11.

 

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 一本伊大人香蕉高清在线观看 | 亚洲无吗视频 | 成人午夜大片 | 在线成人播放毛片 | 国产成人精品一区 | 三级网站免费 | 成年午夜性爽快免费视频不卡 | 韩国一级毛片视频 | 男女超猛烈啪啦啦的免费视频 | 一区二区三区高清在线 | 久久国产视频网站 | 伊人久久精品午夜 | 欧美日韩精品一区二区三区高清视频 | 国产成人免费片在线视频观看 | 99国产精品视频免费观看 | 超薄肉色丝袜精品足j福利 超级乱淫视频aⅴ播放视频 | 国产精品久久久天天影视香蕉 | 曰本黄大片 | 亚洲精品毛片久久久久久久 | 日韩中文字幕视频 | 网站免费满18成年在线观看 | 欧美视频精品 | 欧美性极品hd高清视频 | 在线免费成人 | 国产精品自在自线亚洲 | 国产理论视频在线观看 | 国产浮力第一页草草影院 | 手机在线观看黄色网址 | 大美女香蕉丽人视频网站 | 国产永久高清免费动作片www | 毛片在线播放网站 | 精品国产无限资源免费观看 | 国产在线一区二区三区四区 | 成人精品一区二区三区中文字幕 | 国产亚洲精品午夜一区 | 亚洲国产精久久久久久久 | 欧美国产在线观看 | 成年人在线免费观看网站 | 精品免费在线视频 | 精品久久久在线观看 | 国产精品一在线观看 |