{"id":19408,"date":"2015-08-29T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=19408"},"modified":"2015-08-29T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T11:50:54","slug":"million-meals-charitys-target-as-more-face-life-on-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=19408","title":{"rendered":"Million meals &#8211; Charity\u2019s target as more face life on streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-nM9Nq5XPe8s\/VeGb2EHVJLI\/AAAAAAAAS_M\/kTsxkZGekm8\/s0\/2015-08-29_13-47-34.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Food For All workers, who provide 1,000 meals a day, outside the charity\u2019s Matchless Gifts shop<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Published: 13 August, 2015<br \/>\nBy DANIEL KRAMER<\/p>\n<p>A FOOD charity is appealing to musicians and artists to help provide a million meals to Camden\u2019s homeless next year.<\/p>\n<p>Food For All \u2013 which drives food to drop-off points in Kentish Town, Camden Town and King\u2019s Cross daily \u2013 celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n<p>The charity is hoping to stage a Christmas fundraising gig following a rise in demand triggered by austerity cuts, according to director Peter \u201cPara\u201d O\u2019Grady.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI\u2019ve seen a distinct rise in homelessness in the past few years. An increasing number of single parents and elderly people are coming to us. Today, people often see homeless people as criminals. Where has the society of compassion gone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThere are 1,000 meals going out each day. About 80 per cent of the recipients are regulars. Some of them have been coming for 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Food For All has already benefited from some celebrity supporters, with guest list proceeds of a recent Libertines gig in Camden Town being donated to the charity. Its Matchless Gifts shop, in Caledonian Road, receives donations from celebrities such as Paul Cook (Sex Pistols) and actor Russell Brand.<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.camdennewjournal.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/million-meals-charity%E2%80%99s-target-more-face-life-streets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-xn5N_7muyk8\/VeGcITUuT_I\/AAAAAAAAS_U\/7AH4KoQWfXE\/s0\/2015-08-29_13-48-49.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Daniel Kramer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> A FOOD charity is appealing to musicians and artists to help provide a million meals to Camden\u2019s homeless next year.  Food For All \u2013 which drives food to drop-off points in Kentish Town, Camden Town and King\u2019s Cross daily \u2013 celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.  The charity is hoping to stage a Christmas fundraising gig following a rise in demand triggered by austerity cuts, according to director Peter \u201cPara\u201d O\u2019Grady.  He said: \u201cI\u2019ve seen a distinct rise in homelessness in the past few years. An increasing number of single parents and elderly people are coming to us. Today, people often see homeless people as criminals. Where has the society of compassion gone?\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19410,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions\/19410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}