A woman in the UK survive for six days without any food to feed her children during the holidays

News24xx.com -  Tragic, just to gives her children could eat during the summer holidays, a mother named Sadie Drew, 30 has revealed that she had to survive for six days without any food.

The woman who has four children, has now turned to a food bank for help. Before, she relies on free school dinners, but with the six-week break it is difficult  for her to afford to feed all the mouths in her family. So, to make up the deficit she simply doesn’t eat.

She said, "When the holidays is start, boredom kicks in and they replace that with food, and they just eat.Whereas in school they have certain snack times, and they are getting education."

"But, when that’s not happening, they are just hungry all the time.  My kids don’t stop eating. "

Sadie says she feels no shame about using the food bank, because the welfare of her children is at stake.

"My kids need to eat, and my pride goes out the window when it involves children. I have done it for my children. After I knew about the food bank, I believe I could get help. I was a single mum to my two girls and for them, I didn’t eat for six days straight. Without this place, it would be a major struggle."

Don Gardner, who runs the CPR food banks at Camborne, Redruth and Pool, said children would go hungry this summer because their families relied on free school meals. 

"On the first day of the holidays this year we gave out over 800 meals out in two hours. Two years ago we did 3,000 meals during the school holidays."

Don Gardner is urging anyone struggling to feed their children or pay bills to visit the food bank. 

 

 

 

 

 

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