Help Feed the Nation
Kingsclere Parish Council
HELP FEED THE NATION
Farmers are calling on British workers to fill vital roles harvesting fruit and vegetables during the coronavirus crisis. Due to tight travel restrictions imposed by governments amid the Covid-19 pandemic, some 90,000 positions need to be filled, many in just a few weeks’ time.
International charity Concordia, based in Brighton, supplies volunteering and international work placements to people all over the world. It was initially founded in 1943 to recruit volunteer labour to help with the war effort but since its founding, has supported nearly three-quarters of a million people to undertake intercultural exchanges all over the world.
Normally, its seasonal worker programme finds jobs on UK farms for people from abroad. It had lined up some 10,000 labourers from overseas to come to the UK but, as countries go on lockdown, these workers can no longer travel. So now the recruitment charity has joined HOPS and Fruitful as the three leading ethical providers of labour in the UK to launch the Feed the Nation campaign.
Visit Concordia's website for more information about the Feed the Nation campaign.
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