Abstract
This chapter examines the impact that the experience of volunteering can have upon volunteers responding to poverty by drawing on the experience of volunteers at a food project (‘Lunch’), which the author ran each school holiday from July 2015 to August 2016 in response to holiday hunger. Holiday hunger is when children are at risk of not having enough to eat in the school holidays. ‘Lunch’ provided primary school aged children with play time and a hot, healthy meal and was delivered in a church hall. The chapter concludes that the impact of volunteering upon volunteers is important to understand in order to problematise the binary of the giver and receiver in responding to poverty.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Action on Poverty in the UK |
| Editors | Sarah Page, Martin Coates, Julie Tipping, Juliette Frangos, Katy Goldstraw |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Chapter | 6 |
| Pages | 87-99 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-37182-0 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-37181-3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 17 Sept 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | Sustainable Development Goals |
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| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General
Themes
- Faith and Peaceful Relations