'Over the past few months we have seen more and more people coming to use in need of help and worrying about how they are going to afford to eat and pay their bills every week.'
A South Belfast foodbank has said that the cost of living crisis is having a huge impact on people in the city as it issues a call for support ahead of the summer holidays.
Read more: Cost-of-living crisis: Rising costs "worse than Covid" for hospitality as NI restaurants close "Young families and single people tend appear to be the groups who are really struggling the most and something needs to be done to provide more support for them through this cost of living crisis.
Bruce said that the foodbank is now moving back to one to one appointments with users and moving away from deliveries, with this allowing people to choose exactly what they need each week. Customers being asked to donate essential items of long-life food such as UHT Milk and UHT Juice, and Tinned Fish and Tinned Fruit.
The Trussell Trust, which supports a nationwide network of over 1,300 food bank centres including South Belfast Foodbank, has seen long term increases in numbers of emergency food parcels distributed to people who are facing hardship.
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