Description: The Jansen Foundation helping with food poverty in the UK and India and urban and rural sanitation in India
UK & INDIA
Every year, 100,000 tonnes of readily available and edible food from the UK’s retail and food manufacturing sector is wasted, equivalent to 250 million meals going uneaten. Additionally, some 1.5m Britons went entire days without eating during the height of the Covid-19 lockdown and with the recessionary trends and increased fuel/energy prices many more people are finding themselves unable to afford the most basic essentials to feed themselves. The number of UK adults wo cant afford to buy food has doubled
Food waste and food poverty are global issues and whilst many are doing their utmost to help in these areas, the startling fact is that a third of all food produced worldwide ends up being discarded – a startling figure. From distribution of food that would otherwise go to waste, through to provision of basic foods to those most in need, there is so much more that can be done. We hope to be able to provide assistance in helping resolve some of these issues both in the UK and in India.