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(17 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canterbury, UK - 10 June 2024
1. Various of single father Dominic Watters looking at bills
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominic Watters, single father and campaigner:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 1 & 3-6++
"I'm a single dad. Me and my amazing daughter, we live in, like, the most deprived blocks of this council estate. As someone in receipt of child benefit and Universal Credit, I can tell you that it leaves you feeling stranded, it's dehumanizing. And it leaves families not knowing which way to turn, because you can't afford the daily essentials that you need to get by. I think that it's been so bad for so long that people are trying to hold out hope for a change via politics. But there is a deep, deep sense of not being listened to, of not being able to engage in politics on any level. And there is a kind of shared sense of hopelessness within my estate of whether change will actually happen, no matter what government gets in."
3. Various of Watters making a cup of tea
4. Wide of Watters opening shelf to show electricity meter
5. Close of pre-pay electricity meter
6. Close of tag reading (English) "Dominic Watters Single Dad Social Work"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London - 13 June 2024
7. Exterior of food bank
8. Food being packed up
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Dornelly, CEO of The Community Food Hub:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 8 & 10++
"The situation for the food crisis hasn't improved. Mixed with the fuel poverty, it's still kind of, like, dire. You've still got people losing their jobs, which we hear every single day, and so a lot of them are still resorting to come to the food bank. There's a lot of people out there that are saying that the food banks should no longer be existing, people should be more empowered and be made independent. And I totally understand that and we do agree with that. But at the end of the day, we do have clients that do not have the money. I'm hoping that these elections are going to prove to be fruitful. I personally doubt it. I've kind of, like, given up hope with these politicians and them understanding the common people, the working class people. I am kind of, like, fed up that they won't take the time out to come and see what it is that we're doing and how people are living. If we, voluntary organizations, were to just say, 'You know, we've had enough,' then I believe that the community will be in ruins because then you won't have the grassroots people trying to support their community and to lift it up. It's a lot of weight, it's a lot of weight. Mentally and emotionally, I'm drained. But because I know that this is a project that is so needed, it just keeps us going. It keeps us going."
10. Various of volunteers preparing food before the community food hub opens
STORYLINE:
Dominic Watters watches his gas and electricity meter like a hawk.
He had topped it up a few days ago, but now there’s just 1.85 pounds ($2.40) left. That may determine what kind of dinner he and his teen daughter get tonight, he says.
Watters, a campaigner for better access to nutritious food, is a single dad in Canterbury, southern England, who relies on government welfare.
He knows microwave meals don’t compare to home-cooked dinners, but sometimes he simply cannot afford to turn on the oven or cooker.
"We live in, like, the most deprived blocks of this council estate, which is also a food desert, ironically in the Garden of England," said Watters.
That’s not the reality for Watters and millions across the U.K. still feeling the squeeze from a persistent cost-of-living crisis.
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