Working-class women: Mona
This article is the first in a series on working-class women, highlighting the work and organising women across the world perform to alleviate hardships on their communities. This instalment features Mona, who works in her spare time distributing food to the poorest people of Ohio, USA. Mona explains the concept of food deserts, how they are not a problem of scarcity and poverty, but in fact manufactured by the US’ post-industrial city designs, which left some communities with inadequate food access
A year of campaigns: Food bank collections
To end off the YCL’s Recruitment Month, Amelia Smith writes on Merseyside branch’s food bank collection efforts
A year of campaigns: Red Veg
To kickstart Recruitment Month, Andrew Gibson writes about the YCL’s fight against food poverty in Lanarkshire.
Marcus Rashford encourages millions of parents to sign up for food voucher scheme
In a open letter, the footballer and child poverty campaigner, Marcus Rashford, has called on health professionals to spread the word about the government’s Healthy Start scheme, in a bid to increase take up among eligible families.
