Cost of Living: 'I tell my kids I'll buy it tomorrow - and hope they forget'

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Sufia Alam, who runs a food bank at the Maryam Centre, says the cost of living crisis has hit a community already struggling.

"People are running out of borrowing options," adds Dr Hanif. "They can no longer turn to family members. Ill health is very common. One bout of sickness can send the family below the poverty line, struggling to pay their bills.

Nine mothers, all Muslim, gathered to get advice and support on how to deal with rising prices. One, a mum-of-seven, said her family all slept in two bedrooms as the other two rooms in her home were too cold to use. Rising rents meant she couldn't afford to move. "Life is not easy now," she says, as her youngest child, two-year-old Ali, plays in another room. "My children don't understand - when they feel cold they just put the heating on. They ask 'can you buy this, can you buy that' and I often say I will buy it tomorrow and hope they forget."

The mosque started distributing food due to Covid 19 and planned to stop the service last year but soaring inflation has meant it is busier than ever.

 

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Maybe, their Muslim husbands, fathers and uncles should allow them to work to increase their families income and they should stop having 6 kids when they can't afford it. Their flats/houses will be also less overcrowded. I have 1 child. She's already to expensive to raise. One!

Everyone is feeling it , not just the Muslim community 🤦🏻‍♀️ why is religion or race brought into it ? Every culture is in the same predicament

Get a job then

Japan colonized Korea for 40 years, kept teenage girls as sex slaves, recruited teenagers into suicide planes, and refused to apologize for war crimes such as forced labor. Does Britain support Japan's act of imperialist aggression? Why does Britain cooperate with Japan?

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