Help the Hungry: Behind the pictures - The three people helped by our campaign captured in artists’s work

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Recommended Top artist to raise funds with portraits of those helped by campaign “The first lockdown was hard,” he said, “because everything was closed and I didn’t know where to go, what to do, what to eat and I was stressed – it was very hard to survive.” More than three million people reported going hungry during the first lockdown and the number of adults who are now food insecure in Britain is estimated to have quadrupled due to the pandemic, according to a recent report by the Food Foundation and King’s College London. “This second lockdown has been much better because of the help I’m now getting from the Muslim Welfare House and the food from the trucks”, Mr Marcelo added. Sarah, who previously suffered with mental health issues, added: “It’s been hard during the pandemic, I had men knocking on my doors and I didn’t feel supported at all by those who were supposed to help me.” She said she had only recently started getting food from the Muslim Welfare House – and was grateful for what the campaign was doing. I was working as a delivery driver to raise enough money to study coding and get another job to support my family and then this accident happened.” But the family’s food ordeal was ameliorated just last week when they heard of the collaboration between With Compassion and Muslim Welfare House – and since then they have been receiving additional free meals.