The charity’s work helps build financial, literacy and confidence from an early age, which are key skills that will help young people mitigate food insecurity. The 90-minute sessions, supported by Sodexo’s volunteers, included topics such as making money choices, sustainability, advertising and branding.
To celebrate the end of the seven-week programme, 90 children from the school visited Sodexo’s London head office for the final session and were treated to lunch.
Gareth John, European director of Sodexo legal affairs and chair of the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation said: “Their programmes are aimed at helping break the cycle of young people falling into food insecurity through building financial literacy and confidence from an early age. Manorfield Primary School is situated in the London area of Tower Hamlets, which sees double the UK average rate of children eligible for free school meals and extremely high rates of child poverty.
“Supporting projects like this are key to delivering Stop Hunger's mission which is not limited to a food related project or a day at a food bank. Projects supported include those that are aimed at helping to prevent individuals needing to rely on emergency food packages and addressing the root causes of food insecurity, like mentoring, job-skills, cookery classes, skills-based volunteering and much more.”
The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation has donated grants to a number of beneficiaries including mental health charity A Lust for Life, The Black Heart Foundation and CoFarm.