Samir Jeraj – Freelance Journalist

The rise of food banks in the UK will probably define this recession. I’ve been working for the past few weeks on a report for Keith Taylor, a Member of the European Parliament, on how much and why food banks have grown in his constituency of South East England. The results are shocking, and some of the case studies of what was happening on the ground were deeply upsetting.  Read the full report and press release here.