Foodbank use skyrockets amid global pandemic
Trussell Trust reports 81% increase in emergency parcels
STAGGERING numbers of people are being forced into food poverty with charities reporting hikes in foodbank use of up to 80 per cent since the Covid-19 outbreak.
The skyrocketing need sparked by the pandemic and lockdown has prompted a coalition of charities to call for emergency measures to prevent people “being swept into destitution.”
One of the charities, the Trussell Trust, said today that in the last two weeks of March its foodbanks had given out 81 per cent more emergency food parcels than the same period the previous year.
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