Fourteen years ago, in the city of Salisbury, Paddy Henderson was fundraising for a little known local charity called the Trussell Trust, which focused on helping orphaned children in Bulgaria. One evening, he received a phone call from a desperate local mother, who said, “my children are going to bed hungry tonight – what are YOU going to do about it?”
This was the incident that sparked the birth of a movement and the creation of the Trussell Trust’s first “food bank”. It was a natural compassionate response to discovering that somebody in 21st century Britain could not afford food.
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