In 2012, thousands of children are starving on the streets of London

The children arrive with the telltale signs: shrunken faces, sallow skin, dark rings around their eyes and rotting teeth.

Some of the 11-year-olds are so underweight and undersized they look like six-year-olds, and those aged six often look only three or four.

You do not expect to find severely malnourished children on the streets of London in 2012, three months before the city showcases itself for the Olympics, but workers employed by Kids Company — a charity feeding thousands of extremely vulnerable children — say that child hunger is on the rise and they see it daily at their network of street-level centres.

Young mother Susan Scott, 21, who arrived at Kids Company nine months ago weighing six-and-a-half stone, described what it felt like to go hungry. “It gives you a blinding headache, you’re constantly feeling sick, your belly’s hurting, your head’s hurting, you can’t concentrate. You feel irritable with your baby and wish it would go away. Read More