KidsCan hopes to be essential service during Covid-19 lockdown

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TLDRKids Can, a children's charity, is adapting its operations during the nationwide lockdown to ensure that families in need receive food supplies. CEO Julie Chapman reports a significant increase in demand from schools, with over 460 schools ordering food to support more than 30,000 children daily. The charity has changed its policy to allow schools to send food home to families for the first time. However, with schools likely not functioning as distribution hubs, Kids Can is in discussions with the government to find safe ways to deliver food. The charity emphasizes the urgency of distributing existing food supplies before the lockdown begins, as many children rely on school meals for their daily nutrition. Kids Can is prepared to meet the increased demand and is hopeful for a collaborative approach to address food insecurity during this challenging time.

Conclusões

  • 🍽️ Kids Can adapts to provide food during lockdown.
  • 🏫 Demand from schools for food supplies has surged.
  • 📦 Schools can send food home to families for the first time.
  • 🚨 Urgent distribution of food supplies is needed before lockdown.
  • 📈 Over 460 schools have ordered food, exceeding 30,000 children daily.
  • 🥫 Food provided includes non-perishable items for home preparation.
  • 🤝 Kids Can is ready to collaborate with the government.
  • 😟 Concerns about children's nutrition during school closures.

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    Children's charity Kids Can aims to operate as an essential service during the nationwide lockdown, responding to a sharp increase in demand for food supplies from schools. CEO Julie Chapman discusses the charity's new policy allowing schools to send food home to families. Despite challenges in using schools as supply hubs due to isolation requirements, Kids Can is prepared to assist in distributing food safely to families in need. The charity has already exceeded its usual support for 30,000 children daily, with expectations to reach over 40,000 once schools reopen. They provide a variety of food items that can be prepared at home, and there are concerns about food security for children who rely on school meals during the lockdown. Kids Can is ready to collaborate with the government to ensure that children do not go hungry.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • What is Kids Can's role during the lockdown?

    Kids Can aims to operate as an essential service, providing food supplies to families in need.

  • How has demand changed since the lockdown began?

    Demand has risen sharply, with requests exceeding 30,000 children a day.

  • What types of food are being provided?

    The charity supplies non-perishable food items that can be prepared at home, such as fruit, baked beans, yogurt, and meal kits.

  • What should schools do with food supplies before the lockdown?

    Schools are encouraged to distribute any canned food on-site to families before midnight.

  • How many schools are involved in the food distribution?

    460 schools have ordered food, with expectations to exceed 40,000 students a day after lockdown.

  • What are the concerns regarding children's meals during the lockdown?

    There are worries about food insecurity for children who rely on school meals for breakfast and lunch.

  • Is Kids Can prepared to meet the increased demand?

    Yes, Kids Can is ready to work with the government and community to ensure food reaches those in need.

  • What is the main message from Kids Can to schools?

    Schools should distribute food supplies to families as soon as possible.

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    children's charity kids can is hoping it
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    will be able to operate as an essential
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    service during the nationwide lockdown
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    and says demand from schools for food
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    supplies has risen sharply in just the
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    last week after the nation moved to
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    alert level 3 the charity changed its
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    policy allowing schools to send food
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    home to families for the first time
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    CEO Julie Chapman says hundreds of
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    schools put their hand up to become a
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    supply hub during the lockdown to
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    support students and their families who
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    they know will be struggling she joins
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    me now tell us have you heard Julie from
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    the government what your role will be
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    during the lockdown look what I can tell
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    you is we've been speaking with Ministry
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    of Education today and we know that
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    using schools as a as a hub will
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    probably not work and because of the
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    fact that people do need to stay home
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    and you know so isolate in this period
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    so what we are now doing is talking to
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    government about how and what we could
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    do to still get supplies through to
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    those families and children that are in
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    need but the key thing here is that it
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    obviously needs to be done safely so any
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    thoughts on how you might be able to do
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    that well I think you know there's a lot
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    of a lot of ideas and a lot of thoughts
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    that we've got but ultimately it's going
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    to be up to the sort of command team as
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    to whether we can play a part and we're
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    certainly poised and ready to do that we
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    are a bulk food supplier so if we are
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    called upon then we will help one of the
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    key messages that I want to get out to
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    our schools tonight though is that if
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    you do have any kids canned food on-site
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    you need to get that out and distribute
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    it to families before midnight otherwise
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    it is likely that it will have to stay
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    there for at least the four weeks of the
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    lockdown possibly longer if it continues
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    so how much food is that then but that
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    you need to get out tonight
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    well that depends on what schools are
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    holding from Tim one and we know that
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    some schools have already been taking
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    that food and sending it out to their
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    communities dinning at home with
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    children and we have communicated that
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    to schools earlier in the week that they
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    are able to do that but certainly now
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    that we know that it would be unlikely
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    that we could use school as a hub we're
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    encouraging our schools to take that
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    food now and give it out to families
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    before midnight so what has the demand
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    been like in the past week we opened our
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    food portal about a week ago and on
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    average each term the requests are for
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    to support about 30,000 children a day
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    across seven hundred and eighty-seven
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    school so far we've had 460 schools
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    order food and we have already exceeded
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    the 30,000 students a day so we expect
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    certainly that when we come out of
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    lockdown and we go back into the school
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    term and schools go back we'll be
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    exceeding 40,000 students a day so there
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    is going to require huge effort from us
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    the community and our partners and
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    individuals that donate to kids can so
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    what have you what kind of foodstuffs
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    have you been sending because it wasn't
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    prepared food was that it had to be had
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    to be food that could be prepared at
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    home so what kind of stuff were you
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    sending out in the packages yeah so our
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    schools are able to access a range of
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    products so we have fruit in terms we
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    have baked beans we have yogurt yogurt
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    makers spreads for bread Skagen mix a
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    range of news we bars and general kind
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    of hot meals and terms that can be
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    heated up and prepared easily in a safe
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    way Julie how worried are you about
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    these kids because they're not going to
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    be going to school for the next month
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    and potentially longer and if they
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    normally get there one of their main
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    meals from you at school
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    what are your worries here yeah we're
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    extremely worried as a team
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    and as I say you know we stand ready to
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    work in any capacity that we can with
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    government and this is going to become
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    you know this isn't about just kids can
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    kids in school this is going to the
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    choir become a wider food and security
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    issue across the country I believe that
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    we can play a part in meeting that need
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    and but we are going to see a huge
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    increase and we're very worried about
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    those students that do rely on you know
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    breakfast and lunch being provided at so
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    you are obviously hopeful that some kind
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    of arrangement where everybody will
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    still be safe but this food will be able
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    to get through you're still hoping you
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    can negotiate that oh absolutely
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    I mean you know what we're set to do and
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    we have a huge distribution warehouse we
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    have stock coming in and you know our
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    supply chain is the deal right now that
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    out to communities and so you know we
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    are hopeful that we can play some kind
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    of I'm sure that kids don't go hungry
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    thank you so much for joining us that's
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    Julie Chapman who's the kids can CEO and
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    apologies for the phone line getting a
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    bit ropey near the end of that
Etiquetas
  • Kids Can
  • charity
  • food supplies
  • lockdown
  • schools
  • food insecurity
  • Julie Chapman
  • community support
  • children
  • nutrition