Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has built a task force in a bid to end child hunger in the UK

Manchester United star Marcus Rashford is winning hearts every day on and off the field. Every human being is hailing Rashford for his great work outside the football pitch.

He has taken a resolution to end child hunger in the UK. The England striker forced the UK-government to take a U-turn on free school meals earlier this summer, which was admired by everyone around the world.

As per a recent report by BBC, Rashford has tied up with multiple food brands to build up a task-force to tackle child food poverty in the UK.

Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Deliveroo, FareShare, Food Foundation, Iceland, Kellogg’s, Lidl, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, and Waitrose are a part of this taskforce and backed proposals from the National Food Strategy, an independent review of UK food policy.

In the next 6 weeks, the task force members will share stories of those most affected by child food insecurity in the UK.

The taskforce is calling for three policy recommendations by the National Food Strategy to be funded by the government as soon as possible:

  • Expanding free school meals to every child from a household on Universal Credit or equivalent, reaching an additional 1.5m children aged seven to 16
  • Expanding an existing school holiday food and activities programme to support all children on free school meals in all areas of England. instead of the current 50,000 children that are helped
  • Increasing the value of the Healthy Start vouchers – which help parents with children under the age of four and pregnant women buy some basic foods – from £3.10 to £4.25 per week, and expanding it to all those on Universal Credit or equivalent, reaching an additional 290,000 people

Rashford reminds his childhood days while giving an interview to the BBC. He has spoken about how he used a food voucher as a child.

He said, “I think we pretty much knew straight away we had found a short-term solution but that wasn’t going to work in the long run.”

“We had to think about how’s the best way to do it so these families can eat long term and not have any issues.”.

On Twitter, Rashford expressed that he was humbled to stand side by side with them all. He also announced the task-force and their vision with a video from his twitter handle.

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