Ejercicio Option A - 2 · Inglés PAU Castilla y León Ordinaria (Fase Mejora de Nota) 2021

OPTION A

FOOD POVERTY

Food poverty afflicts people the world over, even in more affluent nations. "There are more and more younger people who cry with relief because they can get something to eat and refill their fridge," said Jochen Brühl, chairman of Tafel Deutschland, Germany's food bank group. "Even though the federal government has initiated quick and unbureaucratic help," he added, "some people are in a tragic situation."

In the UK, food poverty has moved to the front of the social and political agenda in large part thanks to Manchester United Marcus Rashford, "ambassador" for FareShare, the UK's longest-running food redistribution charity that feeds more than 930,000 people each week, two-thirds of whom are children and vulnerable families.

"Marcus Rashford's campaign really put food poverty in people's minds, and we've seen a lot of people giving to food banks," says Charities Aid Foundation's Mark Greer of Rashford's efforts. "He's a really powerful messenger, and people have thought about these issues in ways that they perhaps hadn't before. To hear a very wealthy young man talk in such stark terms about his own upbringing and how his family didn't have enough food to put on the table has made a huge difference."

Rashford has not only raised awareness of child hunger but has also helped to drive a fundraising initiative that paid for children and families who might otherwise have gone hungry. He has also launched the Child Food Poverty Taskforce, a group of around 12 organisations to support the UK government's National Food Strategy.

In the US, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promised to donate $100m to Feeding America, a nonprofit that has 200 food banks across the United States, and which launched the Response Fund, a national food and fundraising effort to support national food banks. "Even in ordinary times, food insecurity in American households is an important problem", Bezos said on Instagram.

But the huge increase in demand for food banks came in parallel with restrictions on grocery shopping and limitations on the handling of food. As a result, food banks have had to accept food donations in cash.

(Fragment adapted from The Financial Times.)

2) ARE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? INDICATE THE LINES THAT SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER (1 POINT).

1.

Only third world countries are devastated by the famine.

TRUE

FALSE

2.

Almost a million people are fed by FareShare each week.

TRUE

FALSE