People already struggling with food poverty are now facing an extra strain due to the coronavirus crisis, a Castlemilk charity worker has warned.Paddy McKenna, of Castlemilk Together Community Food Action, also praised the hard work of locals for rallying together during the pandemic.The group have been supplying food, delivering prescriptions and phoning vulnerable people to offer support over the past month.
Paddy told the Reformer : “Part of what has happened has highlighted existing problems,like food poverty. “Folk here have been campaigning about that for a long time and about the need to have more food shops, and that has been accelerated by the virus.“ Overnight, people’s circumstances have changed, we’ve got folk suddenly laid off