Teen living in poverty draws her life

14-year-old Becky is one of the most impressive teens you'll ever meet.  She loves Japanese Manga art, but living in poverty in Hull has had little or no chance of developing her art. 

Becky says:  "I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. It can be a release. I mean you can draw your emotions on a sheet of paper, sometimes you can't write them down, you can't speak them but you can definitely draw them on paper."

"I wanted to be a manga understudy either for some manga company," she adds.

So we put her in touch with leading manga artist Chie Kutsuwada. Here is the superb Manga cartoon she drew about her life, her family having to access foodbanks and hopes for the future.  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjisuUWC_tE

Over 300,000 children were given food aid in the UK last year. While politicians continue to argue about why so many kids are experiencing food poverty, Breadline Kids Dispatches asked children to tell us what it feels like when the cupboards are sometimes bare.
Budding artist Becky lives with little sister Rosie (8) and mother in Hull. For a time her family had as little as £1.20 per person per day to spend on food, so turned to a foodbank and a charity run breakfast club for help.
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