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Despite being one of the richest economies in the world, food banks in the UK gave out almost a million food parcels last year, a third of them to children. To highlight the scale of this poverty a Luton woman is living on £1 per day for five days. Shemiza Rashid says the Living Below the Line initiative not only shines a light on the issue, it also encourages people to donate food to the food banks. In this extract she speaks to 91¸£ÀûÉç Three Counties presenter Yasmeen Khan.