Here’s some context:
[https://www.thejournal.ie/food-poverty-struggle-cost-5821047-Jul2022/](https://www.thejournal.ie/food-poverty-struggle-cost-5821047-Jul2022/)
If you can afford to, donate either monetarily or whatever excess non-perishables you have to your local food bank (check if they will take them).
A missed pint for you, could mean a meal for a struggling family, and by fuck, there are many struggling families and the numbers keep going up.
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My local one also accepts toiletries (I like to give feminine hygiene products). So don’t forget these if you have some spare.
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I thought according to this sub food banks were just a Tory UK thing?
It’s been on my mind for months that I would love to set one up for our area, I just don’t know how to go about it, my means personally wouldn’t be great but I appreciate what we do have and would love to help and give back to those in the community really struggling, any ideas how to go about this?
I know this isn’t the point of this thread, and I promise to keep helping wherever I can, but it brings my piss to a boil to think that people in this country are barely surviving while our gdp is at its highest and rising