Hey, y'all! Need to get some food in the house, asap. I'm out. I need at least $100, to start, of this goal to make delivery worth it(I don't drive). Which turns out to be more like $80 in food after fees.
Herds of hippos are at risk of dying due to a severe #Drought in #Botswana, which is home to one of the largest hippo populations. The rivers of the region have already dried-up, forcing hippos to congregate around the remaining muddy ponds.
Meanwhile in easthern Africa, countries like #Kenya, #Uganda and #Tanzania, have been battling against #Floods for months with hundreds killed and thousands displaced.
These big food service cans were donated to a food shelf I volunteer at, but there's no chance our clients will take them, so I'm shifting them to another food shelf that operates a kitchen. Hopefully they won't go to waste, though using > 30 pounds of water chestnuts is going to be a challenge! #Vermont#FoodInsecurity
Hey Fedi friends! It's the end of the month again which means it's time for a new mutual aid request. (This ended up being a little longer than I expected but bare with me! CashApp & PayPal links at the end! :floof_Heart:)
To try and keep this short and since many of the folks who have known me or seen me around the Fediverse know or have an idea of what the current situation is like.
I'm a minor with no source of income outside of coding which does not bring nearly enough in for me to even buy lunch most months so I have to resort to mutual aids or theft (Which got me in a lot of legal trouble, but fuck the corporates.). I need at least enough fundings to support me (Age 16, turning 17 this year) and my younger sibling (age 15).
I am a high school student living in a crappy situation with divorced parents. Where one house, the main house, I am refused basic needs such as, but not limited to, food, water, hygiene, clothing, proper medical care, etc. While the other house, my mothers, is a hoarder mess with little to no food, and when there is non expired food that has not been gotten into by animals, months, mold, maggots, etc, it is often times one of the following: Chocolate, cookies, Twinkies, hostess foods, etc. My mother hoards much more than just garbage but indeed, animals also. (With over 70 animals in the house and dogs who are not potty trained along with more animals, outside of the house).
Neither houses include proper medical care. I have a chronic skin disease that causes me severe pain and if it gets bad enough, it becomes an open wound that tunnels often times on my chest or on my legs. My parents do not supply the proper medications I need for these, and when asked or mentioned needing the medications, I get told "Get a job". (Which I am also not allowed to have.)
I'm constantly at risk of being kicked out of the house at any time without warning, a couple of months ago I was locked out of the house in regards to being trans and using my chosen name tho thankfully this was after a school play and I had a safe place at the time.
CPS does not listen. The cops do not listen. I cannot speak up about any of these issues even to trusted adults as this causes more issues at home and gets CPS involved.
Cost breakdowns for the month! Any extra fundings will be put towards getting my parrot a new urn (His last one unfortunately broke).
MEDICATIONS: $50 (4x meds for chronic disease (3 prescription + 1 one reg), anxiety/insomnia meds, pain killers)
CAT FOOD: $20
TOTAL: $500
NOT URGENT BUT STILL NEEDED: I will be doing commissions in regards to funding for this stuff, it might take a little bit but I'll do it o7
URN REPLACEMENT: $160 (I know this is expensive but it was the cheapest urn I could find that was made with a decent quality that would work better for traveling with him, as this bird means a lot to me, even in death. If you've known or seen me around within my past year and a half ish on Fedi you'd know how much my beloved Leo was worth to me<3)
(We attempted to fix the urn but it didn't work very well as it proceeded to keep breaking and at this point it's cheaper just to replace it)
LAPTOP FIX: $20
(Keyboard had an incident where one of the keys broke and need to be replaced, this was a rough estimate on the price it should cost from a friend. - The laptop doesn't have a warranty 😹 but I need this for personal use + school + studies)
Retail food profits in #Canada have more than doubled:
▪ 2019: $2.4Bnet income
▪ 2023: > $6B
🧐 The grocery chains were called to Ottawa to explain…
Loblaws, Metro, Sobey:
😱 "Profiteering? No, no, no!"
But food inflation has been higher than the general rate of inflation, & Cdns are buying fewer groceries (honestly, I don't know how some of my neighbours manage.)
Native to the #EasternUS, the plant, azolla caroliniana Willd—commonly known as #CarolinaAzolla—also could ease #FoodInsecurity in the near future, according to findings recently published in #FoodScience & Nutrition. The researchers found that the #Carolina strain of #azolla is more digestible & nutritious for humans than azolla varieties that grow in the wild & also are cultivated in Asia & Africa for livestock feed.
Global food insecurity has risen substantially since pre-pandemic times, exacerbated by extreme weather, climate change, war and conflict.
What the U.N. World Food Program calls “a hunger crisis of unprecedented proportions” plays out differently around the world.commercial food production in Brazil.
'Gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging and maintaining backyard poultry and livestock increased in rural New England during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new study found that these activities, collectively known as home and wild food production, reduced hunger among households during that period.'
@Andy_European
When I ran a foodbank (pre 2017), DWP REFUSED to give out foodbank vouchers. But they still "sent" people to us, so we had to organise a voucher for them. So now DWP regress to callous cynical position of knowing help is needed, rejecting foodbank stats on food poverty, yet still sending people to f/bank but without the proper referral vouchers (then gov have the cheek to say people cheat the system).
Never trust the DWP. #DWP #FoodPoverty #FoodInsecurity #Foodbanks
Jan 31 EWE: #FoodInsecurity — While the recent storms mean the United Kingdom has been hit with rain and floods this winter, parts of Europe have been facing a drought and this could have an impact on the food prices in our supermarkets. #ClimateCrisishttps://www.bbc.com/weather/features/68146091
I am never able to meet any of these mutual aid requests. I know everyone is in some type of need.
I am still out of many food items. If anyone is able to assist, know that your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you 💛 Goal $60.00
CA $AshleyPorter93 @mutualaid#foodinsecurity
Two books I loved, part 1: Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, which is about four entrants in a classical piano competition in Tokyo, and the characters are all interesting and charming but best of all it just has wonderful writing about music -- like the title itself as a description of how a particular player makes a particular piece sound. It's beautiful, and unlike many books with multiple POVs, I loved all the protagonists equally and was never annoyed by a switch at the wrong time. Just beautiful stuff.
"The United Nations children’s fund says there is a “dire situation” in several eastern and southern African countries, where at least 45 million children are dealing with severe #FoodInsecurity made worse by #ClimateChange."