Footballer Marcus Rashford Task-force Tackles Child Food Poverty

Tuesday 01 September, 2020 Written by BBC

SCHOOL DINNERS - Footballer Marcus Rashford has formed a taskforce with some of the UK's biggest food brands to try to help reduce child food poverty.

The 22-year-old Manchester United forward successfully campaigned to extend free school meals this summer.

He has spoken about his own experiences of using a food voucher scheme as a child and was praised for pressing the government into a U-turn on the issue.

He has written to MPs, outlining the help he feels some families still need.

The group of supermarkets, businesses and charities - including Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Deliveroo, FareShare, Food Foundation, Iceland, Kellogg's, Lidl, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose - have formed a taskforce and backed proposals from the National Food Strategy, an independent review of UK food policy.

ABC Note: Marcus Rashford (age 22 years) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team. His salary is: 10.4 million GBP (2019).

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