Meraki was created as a response to the staggering rise in the number of children who qualify for free school meals since the start of the Covid Pandemic.
20% of children now fall within the threshold for this indicator of poverty in the UK and, time & time again, the government has proved reluctant to take the necessary actions to address the issue. Campaigners such as Marcus Rashford have made huge strides in the battle for food equality, but there remains a huge amount of work left to tackle the societal problems that have allowed the issue to rise to such disgraceful levels.
