Sentence examples for emergency parcel from inspiring English sources

"Even though it's against policy, I put together an emergency parcel that will last him three days.

Earlier, the group examined cans of tinned spaghetti and heard from volunteers sorting donations into emergency parcels in South Tyneside.

The Trussell Trust, which runs the country's largest network of food banks, says this is the busiest summer it has ever experienced, with some of its branches seeing double the number of requests for emergency parcels since the start of the holidays.

The Trussell Trust, which runs 400 food banks, says it handed out 913,000 emergency parcels in the last financial year, more than double the total in the previous year.

She reels off numbers: 15,000 emergency parcels, and 80percentt of those are families.

People are dropping in all the time asking for emergency parcels to get them through the next few days.

This is partly due to the fact that, shamefully, hunger in the UK has now reached an epidemic level, with the annual number of people given emergency parcels from food banks last year just shy of a million.

In 2010 only one client of its three Citizens Advice Bureaus (CAB) needed an emergency food parcel.

So, four days before giving birth, Gemma was at the food bank asking for an emergency food parcel, when she should have been packing her hospital bag, or putting the finishing touches to the new nursery.

Just over one in five of those receiving an emergency food parcel said low income was responsible.

According to the Trussell Trust, more than one in three emergency food parcels go to children.