Friday 15th March 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand
Following the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand on 15th March 2019 where fifty people were killed, Australian author, speaker and social activist wrote these words.
Isobel Webster did a weekly shop for our £5 For 5 Day challenge, to show people at Greenbelt Festival what they could expect to eat for an entire week. Here she explains her experience.
Buying a weekly shop for £5 For 5 Days
At Greenbelt 2016, Amos was highlighting their £5 For 5 Days street child fundraiser. I offered to do a weekly supermarket shop to show people at the festival what they could expect.
This is what I found out:
As usual, the more money you have to spend, the more and better you could buy, i.e. if I’d been buying for a family of four, I could have bought a pack of lentils or a small pack of fresh meat – that would have transformed the whole end result.
I realise it’s mostly families buying, but the people in the UK we hear about starving to death tend to be single people living alone. This was supposed to be an exercise to draw our attention to street children, which of course it does, but it was that phrase of the Asda staff member “What they do…”, and her frequent references to how her store tries to help “them”, that bludgeoned me with the reality of how many people in the UK live like this all the time.
This is a hidden level of poverty in our society because we obviously don’t see these folks out and about in town, in cafes etc; my partner Bryan works with them in Scunthorpe but I’d never had such a stark experience of identifying with living this way.
Please consider taking the £5 For 5 Day challenge.
Isobel Webster
Welcome to the first On Her Terms update of 2019. This year marks 30 years since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This landmark in children’s rights has remained a hugely important reference point for those working for justice for children and young people.
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“The idea was beautiful and crazy. The logistics alone would be an organisational nightmare. The risk assessment would run for pages. It would be a five-month, 3,300 kilometres trek across eleven countries with mountains, rivers and seas to navigate. And then there was no guarantee that the walkers would even be allowed to cross the border into the occupied West Bank, let alone reach Jerusalem.” Amos trustee Robert Cohen writes the forword for ‘Walking To Jerusalem’ – Justin Butcher’s book about his experience of walking from London to Jerusalem as part of Amos Trust’s ‘Just Walk To Jerusalem’ project in 2017.
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