Britain’s food bank charities are buying in counselling, GP and mental health support services to help staff and volunteers cope with stress and exhaustion triggered by the explosion in demand for emergency food.

The wellbeing services are a response to a rise in burnout and stress among frontline food bank workers as they deal with expanding workloads and the emotional burden of supporting increasing numbers of destitute and emotionally traumatised clients.

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    1 year ago

    Or less strain.

    idk. In Germany we have foodbanks and they’re strained too. Now, a large part of it is the 1 million Ukrainians we took in, and I think it’s not as bad as Britain at the moment. But people have less money, so less to give to foodbanks, there are more people needing foodbanks between refugees and people not having money. So it’s not good and I don’t know how much space we have until it’s the same situation as the UK.