When Emily* opens her door, a blast of cold air creeps out with her. She is wrapped up in her dressing gown, desperate to keep warm. For her this year, Christmas means bitter cold and worrying about how she will feed her family.
"I'm not really in the Christmas spirit," she says. "I don't think many people are. So many people I know haven't even put up a Christmas tree, because they can't afford one."
I'm at Emily's door as part of food bank Humans MCR's Christmas drive to deliver over 300 hampers to struggling families in Greater Manchester. Today, myself and around 50 others will drive miles around the region, giving around 1,200 individuals everything they need for a Christmas meal they might not have otherwise had. Emily and her family are just one of hundreds of stops.
