Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford and his mother Melanie visit a market as part of his campaign.
Rashford has campaigned for the government to provide food vouchers during school holidays to children who normally receive free meals during term time if their parents receive welfare support. Now, working together with the charity FareShare, meals will be prepared and packaged individually at Old Trafford by club staff before being shipped to local Manchester United Foundation partner schools.“Many of Manchester’s children are going hungry and they are particularly vulnerable during school holidays when they cannot benefit from the meal voucher programme,” Collette Roche, chief operating officer at United said.
Rashford forced a government U-turn in July when he won his battle to ensure free school meals during the summer holidays.