The food bank once had a dad come in who had spent all his money on presents for his children.
bank has told of how it is preparing for a surge in customers over the festive season as families struggle to make ends meet.
“But also in December, especially in the week before Christmas Day, we find there’s a big uptake in people using our services.“People don’t want their children to miss out so they go without food.READ MORE: ‘Money isn’t going as far’: Glasgow food bank seeing increase in users “Between the months of July and September last year, we had 753 people come to the food bank. In the same time period this year, we had 878.The Rutherglen and Cambuslang Foodbank’s work involves providing people who are referred to them with bags of nutritionally balanced items that will feed a household for three days devised with the help of NHS dieticians.
“As well as donations of food, we receive money which we will use to top up our bags, but also we’ve been able to provide people with sim cards that have six months of unlimited calls and texts.
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