Haringey residents to march for end to food poverty
Posted: August 30, 2023
Local community groups are coming together to organise a march against hunger and food poverty as part of a national campaign.
On Saturday, 23rd September, Haringey Community Action Network (HCAN) and Haringey Right to Food will be staging a ‘hunger march’ from Tottenham Hotspur stadium to Tottenham Green in protest of hunger and food poverty. The march aims to raise the need for good quality, affordable food and an end to the need for foodbanks as well as raise awareness of food insecurity in Haringey.
The march will be followed by a community ‘festival of resistance’ and is part of a wider national campaign organised by Right to Food, a campaigning organisation across the UK and Ireland which will be holding similar marches across the country.
Haringey Right to Food is a group of residents campaigning for: universal free school meals for all primary and secondary school children; liveable incomes and benefits: community spaces and kitchens; genuinely affordable housing and a community-led sustainable food strategy for Haringey.
Steve Jones, convenor of HCAN, a collective of 27 local organisations and trade unions, said: “In the UK 4.2 million children live in poverty, that’s one in three kids starving. According to the Child Poverty Action Group around 350,000 more children were pushed into poverty last year. This is outrageous beyond belief when we live in the sixth richest country in the world. Foodbanks in the Trussell Trust’s network saw record numbers of people seeking help last year. Of the three million food parcels given out to people by food banks, more than one million went to children.
“The ongoing cost of living crisis impacts massively on people’s ability to put food on the table – inflation, fuel, rents and mortgages have all skyrocketed while wages and benefits have plummeted in real terms, driving people into a spiral of debt and poverty. If we add to this the devastation taking place with the environment, we have a ticking time bomb. Let us be clear this march and festival of resistance isn’t a one off, it is the beginning of something much bigger. We can no longer remain the pawns of the rich and powerful in society. We simply cannot sit back and wait for someone else to make the change happen, it’s down to us.”
Marchers will meet at 12pm at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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