'It's going to be a life saver': Feeding those going hungry because of coronavirus

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Just one organisation in Plymouth is on track to hand out 28,000 meals this year - a record number.

"I'm a Yorkshire lad. I've got no airs and graces. I'm not different to anyone else, I've just been very lucky in my life that I've not been in this position yet but I am now and this is the way it is - it's the way this year has turned out to be."

"Our understanding is there won't be big communal indoor meals like in the past so we're planning to take out a different meal in the evening - we will cater for more than we normally would."As well as hot soup, the van hands out a carrier bag of donations - from bread to noodles, fresh fruit to even KFC - that had been donated by a branch that night.On the third stop we meet Nathan.

Don said the virus changed everything."I lost 95% of my volunteers because they're over 70, including me. I had to work from home. We meet Kathryn Barlett. She's struggled to find work this year and although she now has a job, she says it's not enough."Quite often cereal and toast are your friend. No disrespect but you hear magazine programmes about 'let's try not having meat one evening', and you think, one evening? I'd be lucky to have a proper meat dish once a week, if I do."

 

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