Unicef UK has partnered with food and farming charity Sustain to launch Food Power for Generation Covid - a grant-funded programme supporting community food projects until February 2021.
The initiative aims to tackle rising numbers of poverty as Unicef figures show of the 2.4 million children already living with food insecurity, one fifth of these households will have gone hungry during lockdown.
Latest figures from the Child Poverty Action Group estimate that a further one million children will fall into poverty by the end of the year due to the pandemic.
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