00:00When you were growing up, do you remember being hungry?
00:03Yeah, of course. But I also understood. Maybe it was just part of me growing up. I just
00:11knew how hard that my mum was working. You know, what families are going through now,
00:15I once had to go through that same system and it's very difficult to find a way out.
00:23Now that I'm in this position that I'm in, it's very important for me to help the people
00:27that are struggling. You know, my mum, she'd done the best she could. I remember we used
00:30to go to a shop called Pound World and everything was under a pound and, you know, we sort of
00:34schedule out the week. So we'd get seven yogurts and you can have one yoghurt a day. And this
00:38is all going on at a time where kids should be concentrating on schoolwork. And it's just
00:43crazy to think that this is still going on at this, you know, we're in 2020 now and it's
00:48just something that I don't believe should be happening.
01:18If it wasn't for that help, that little box of tins and packets that we got every week,
01:23I probably wouldn't be here now.
01:26Without free school meals, I would not even have access to the same healthy, nutritious
01:30food that I have. I'd be eating such cheap, unhealthy food, the type of food that only
01:34keeps you full for an hour.
01:36Families may have unemployment that's come as a result of COVID-19. They may well be on reduced
01:41hours. So, you know, financially, there's been a strain.
01:45Try living our life for a week. I wish we all knew where we're next going to get shopping
01:51or what's going to happen.
01:53I am relying on the £60 I get every fortnight from the free school meal vouchers to do my
02:00food shopping. And so without these vouchers, I'm in trouble.
02:04I say to the MPs, you are in public service. If you're going to allow on your watch poor
02:09children to starve, shame on you.
02:11And one of the most needy sections of our community are obviously kids who can't get
02:16fed properly.
02:17He says he is focused at the moment on a trophy much more important than football, that of
02:23combating child poverty.
02:25Prime Minister, will children get hungry this summer?
02:30Now, around 1.3 million children in England will be able to claim vouchers for free school
02:35meals during the summer holidays, following a campaign led by the Manchester United footballer
02:40election.
02:41The free meals program has been extended with £120 million of funding, all thanks to Marcus
02:48Rashford. That is a lot.
02:49I talked to Marcus Rashford today and congratulated him on his campaign in which, to be honest,
02:55I only became aware of very, very recently today. And I thank him for what he's done.
03:11I don't want this to be the end of it, you know, because there's definitely more steps
03:15that need to be taken. And so we just need to analyse the response. And things like data
03:21in this, these type of topics are very important. And like I said before, it's something that
03:26I wasn't aware of beforehand. And now that I am aware of that, I definitely be watching
03:31that closely. And just seeing the response and, you know, how, how people cope with the
03:36situation, and how it changes their lives for the better, or the problems that they might
03:42face with, with the system. So there's a lot of things that could change in the, in the future
03:48and beyond this, this campaign. The goal is not to be successful and famous. The goal is,
03:55if you have a specific God given ability, is to live your life out through that. And two,
04:01we have a responsibility to push the conversation forward until we're all equal.
04:18a seven.
04:19across the world.
04:19a uzzi
04:19a uzzi
04:20a uzzi
04:20a uzzi
04:20a uzzi
04:20w
Comments