I wanted to say someting about sometimes having tins with a ringpull and sometimes using an opener, but I was too bored with it to actually write it down. Djeezo what a boring topic. (I do have opinions about tinned tomato brands as in some regions of Italy the workers are terribly exploited ).
As for tin opener poverty, when an organisation I'm liaised with handed out food parcels during lockdown to households in need we did have a young refugee that could not open the tins because he had no opener (so we managed to buy him one and made sure we had a bunch to hand out when needed). However, that was mostly a logistics problem (people being improperly housed and badly taken care of ) than a specific 'tin opener poverty' problem.
Someone already raised this need to slice up al the different type of poverty (food poverty, fuel poverty, transport poverty) and I notice that in my work as well and sometimes think: It's just f*cking poverty!!! We just need a fairer distribution of resources regardless of the 20 different subcategories.
As for tin opener poverty, when an organisation I'm liaised with handed out food parcels during lockdown to households in need we did have a young refugee that could not open the tins because he had no opener (so we managed to buy him one and made sure we had a bunch to hand out when needed). However, that was mostly a logistics problem (people being improperly housed and badly taken care of ) than a specific 'tin opener poverty' problem.
Someone already raised this need to slice up al the different type of poverty (food poverty, fuel poverty, transport poverty) and I notice that in my work as well and sometimes think: It's just f*cking poverty!!! We just need a fairer distribution of resources regardless of the 20 different subcategories.