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21 Feb 2012
Cumbria Young Enterprise team creates anti-poverty food bank.
Ask young people in Cumbria to name a place where people can't afford to eat and chances are they will choose a faraway country in Africa or the Middle East.
Yet poverty is a very real problem in the North: every day people go hungry for reasons ranging from redundancy to someone on a low income receiving an unexpected bill. It's a situation that has shocked sixth-formers at Caldew School in Dalston - and spurred them on to do something about it. A group of year 12 students decided on a non profit-making scheme to help those in need as their the Young Enterprise programme, where young people learn about business and the world of work.
