by Admin | Apr 29, 2020 | News
Over the past few weeks, all of us have seen a massive distruption to what we see as “normal day to day” and in-fact the new “normal” is not normal. It is very evident that we all need each other more than ever. We have to come together as a community to support each other through this uncertain time. Some families are under pressure and we have had families and individuals contact us for support. In response, we are now providing emergency meal parcels to some of our beneficiaries, students and families that need extra support at this time.
This is in addition to the services we offer through PAM feeding application. We are grateful and saying thank you to all our donors and our volunteers that have made this weekly food boxes possible.
This is a quick update on what we are doing at this time. We will keep you updated on all further changes to our services. If you would like to volunteer or help us further meet this urgent needs, kindly get in touch by sending an email to [email protected]
by Admin | Jan 22, 2020 | Food Poverty, Hot Meals, PAM News
Every food poverty story is different, but every new story is one too many. A research by the Social Market Foundation shows that groceries were a strain on the finances of four in ten individuals with a household income of £10,000 or less. A quarter of individuals said that healthy and nutritious food was unaffordable and One in ten said that they had to cut back on their own level of food consumption so that others in their family (such as children) can eat.
“Provides A Meal” is an application designed to feed people in need and ultimately give healthy food. We are committed to making UK a hunger fee zone but to do this, we need everyone to get involved. Our application is designed to bring everyone together to solve this problem such that, individuals who identify someone hungry can provide a meal-code for them and the beneficiaries don’t need a phone to get a meal. With such meal-code created on the app, the beneficiary can only use it to get a meal from a partner restaurant and nothing else. We had two options on how to give the meal-codes to people in need;
1. Giving through a charity
2. Giving directly to the person in need.
With the 2nd option however, we are consulting with The Charity Commission to define the category of people that can receive the meal-codes. For now, the codes can only be given to any Charity Partner on the platform but as soon as the charity commission gives the go ahead to use the individual option on the application, we will update our application and users can continue to provide meals directly for people they have identified as hungry.
