FINANCIAL CRISIS FOR VITAL BABY FOODBANK

They’ve been helping desperate, poor families for months but now..

- ANNIE BROWN

A BABY food bank which has helped more than 3000 desperate families is in financial crisis amid soaring demand.

Glasgow Baby Food Bank was set up in October 2019 after a local community group heard a breastfeeding asylum seeker had been hospitalized and the dad could not afford milk formula for their child.

Women who ran a poverty support group tried to help but were shocked to learn traditional food banks don’t stock baby milk.

They posted an appeal on Facebook for formula donations to feed the eight-week-old baby and were inundated.

Tracy Pender, one of three directors of Glasgow Baby Food Bank, told how the organization had been set up for north Glasgow but expanded due to high demand over a wide area.