by Bidemi Green | Jul 6, 2020 | Food Poverty, News, Nutrition, PAM News
PAM successfully raised £4,300 within 28days to feed people during the Coronavirus Pandemic crisis. This notable milestone would not have been possible without the contribution of over 50 supporters who share the same vision with PAM to help provide food to the vulnerable. This campaign kicked off on our social media platforms with active participation from our followers who helped to spread the word to reach potential donors and people in need.
With the outbreak of Covid-19, some of our beneficiaries were unable to access nutritious food through our partner restaurants. As a result, our volunteers at PAM have been working tirelessly to ensure that people are catered for. We have been doing this by dropping off emergency food boxes to support our most vulnerable people and their families within Portsmouth.
Our goal with the crowdfunding campagn was to raise £4,000 by the 4th June 2020. However, the generous support we received helped us to meet and exceed the goal. We were pleased to raise a total of £4,300 by the end of the campaign. The amount raised will help to fill more emergency boxes to be sent out to those in need.
Part of this fund will also help to complete the development of the PAM’s mobile application which can be used to further feed families, individuals and their loved ones. The support we have received will ensure that our volunteers continue to put a smile on people’s faces during and after the lockdown.
PAM sends out a big thank you to to everyone for taking the necessary steps to ensure that we continue to keep people’s spirit high within Portsmouth. Here are some comments from PAM’s donors and supporters –
Rommel: Worthy charity helping and supporting to feed vulnerable people
Oyekunle: This is a fantastic idea, especially during this testing time. Well done to the team
Michael: I strongly believe in supporting the less privileged and the hungry and hence why I’m supporting PAM
Ajibola: Support the initiative to help others and put a smile on someone’s face.
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.
by Rita Twum | Dec 6, 2019 | Food Poverty
Donations and its importance
Did you know that donating comes with lots of benefits?
A donation is a gift for charity, humanitarian aid, or to benefit a cause. A donation may take various forms, which includes, money, alms, services, goods or food and may also satisfy medical needs and reduce poverty and hunger.
The benefits of this selfless act aren’t just experienced by the beneficiaries but also by the donors as well. It has been proven that donating;
- gives a feeling of satisfaction
- promotes good health
- helps others in need
- makes people happy as it removes or reduces hardship
- promotes generosity
- makes you realise that every little bit matter
- makes a difference
- stops hunger
With as little as £3, you can make a difference by using technology to offer meal-codes to people in need. The meal-codes can either be donated to our charity partners or given to the individuals directly (beneficiaries).
Your donations will help us at Provide a Meal (PAM) to continue the good work and to give meal codes to our partnered charities and beneficiaries. To make a donation;
Create a meal code on www.provideameal.com
Donate the meal code to a charity or beneficiary
Beneficiary gets a meal from our food partners
Make a difference! Donate Now! Stop Hunger!
Provide A Meal.
by Rita Twum | Nov 15, 2019 | Food Poverty, Hot Meals
Hunger is a feeling! Indeed, it is a feeling of discomfort and weakness caused by lack of food.
Hunger aggregated to the global level with food insecurity (limited or unreliable access to foods that are safe and nutritionally adequate), undernourishment and starvation is known as World Hunger.
Causes of Hunger
- Poverty – This is one of the main sources of hunger due to lack of finance.
- Conflict – More than half (489 million) of the 815 million hungry people in the world live in countries affected by conflict. This ranges from non-state and state-based violence to one-sided violence.
- Climate Change – Too much, or too little rainfall can destroy harvests or reduce the amount of animal pasture available. For countries facing prolonged conditions or yearly disasters, undernutrition worsens as there is little time for recovery.
- Food Shortage – In some part of the world, there are times during the year when food supplies from the previous harvest are exhausted and families are forced to skip one (or more) meals each day in the period before the next harvest.
- Poor Public Policy – Systemic problems such as poor infrastructure or low investment in agriculture can prevent food and water from reaching the world populations that need them the most.
Ways to stop Hunger
- Education – Access to a better education usually opens the door for a better and brighter future. Some countries provide free school meals to pupils regardless of their ability to pay.
- Managing natural resources – learning about sustainable resource management is also vital for those (communities) who rely on natural resources for their income and food intake.
- Spread the Word – Information can reach those who are not aware but possibly prevent one from hunger by spreading the word through social media and other avenues.
- Food Donation & Provision – Giving and making donations are one of the simplest ways to stop hunger.
Let’s team up to stop hunger. Provide a Meal.
by Rita Twum | Nov 11, 2019 | Food Poverty, Nutrition
Did you know that the inability to afford or make up a healthy diet or meal is called Food Poverty?
Food poverty is when an individual or household have crisis in their personal circumstances or finance and consequently, can’t access the food they would like to eat.
Research has shown that food poverty may lead to poor nutrition, mental distress, social-emotional problems, developmental risks and other health related issues and complications.
According to the World Bank, nearly 2 million people in the UK are undernourished and an estimated 8.4 million people in the UK struggle to get enough food to eat.
A healthy meal is important for our well-being and development. Lets work together to stop food poverty and hunger in our communities and nation. Help someone today.
Provide a Meal.
by Rita Twum | Nov 4, 2019 | Food Poverty, Hot Meals, Nutrition
“Providing meals to the less privileged with the help of technology”
I’m certain we’ve all come across someone who’s either homeless or less privileged on the street or somewhere else. They asked for money for food but we were hesitant to give because we weren’t sure whether they would actually use it for food.
Well.. at Provide a Meal (PAM), we are here to make a difference. With as little as £3 using technology, we are able to offer meal-codes that can be given to such people.
We have different avenues to deliver the meal-codes to those in need and these meal-codes can either be donated to our charity partners or given to the individuals (beneficiaries)
So here is how it works;
Create a meal code on our website or App
Donate the meal code to a charity or beneficiary
Beneficiary gets a meal from our food partners
You’ll get a notification when the meal code has been claimed by the beneficiary with additional information, such as date and location of where the code was claimed.
Become a donor and let’s team up to stop hunger because everyone deserves at least one meal a day!
For more information, visit –
http://www.provideameal.com
[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/provideameal
https://www.instagram.com/provideameal/
