Who feeds the periphery? | Real Food

João Lucas França – Radio host and communicator for the Sabiá Center.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, hunger has increased a lot in Brazil. Adding the mismanagement that already brought the country to the hunger map and the health crisis, our country, still under the Bolsonaro government, has returned to the hunger map; more than 30 million Braz ilians do not have enough to eat every day. More than 120 million are food insecure!

Fighting hunger is still a challenge for us today. Who feeds these people? Who feeds the peripheries, the women who run the households – without having anything to eat? That’s why the solidarity kitchens were created!

The “Solidarity Kitchen” project of the MTST, the Homeless Workers’ Movement, has been distributing lunchboxes in various peripheral communities in Brazil by producing them in their own kitchens, helping to fight hunger in the peripheries .

More than 1,228,000 kitchens and more than 857,491 kilos of food have been distributed so that thousands of families can have at least one nutrient-rich meal a day. These are figures from Cozinha Solidária’s own accounts.

It is to discuss the importance of these spaces, the continuity of feeding people in the periphery, the city and overcoming hunger, that we spoke here today with Juliana de Carvalho – MTST coordinator in Pernambuco. It works in the urban agriculture sector, especially in the fight against hunger and food insecurity.

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