It was a pleasure to volunteer with Human Appeal - UK and the Northfield Neighbourhood Center ( ISLAH TRUST) in delivering food packages to vulnerable people in #Leicester East.

The #COVID-19 pandemic risks tearing up our social fabric, which was already stretched to breaking point after a decade of cruel austerity.

The constituency of #Leicester East, due to a decade of austerity and insecure employment, we have 42% of children living under the poverty line. Over 70% of Le...icestershire’s poverty-stricken children have at least one parent in work.