9-year-old girl desperately calls Humanity Torbay charity and begs for work to feed her family after her dad lost his job

The girl told the charity worker on the phone that her mother had died and that her father only recently lost his job as a lorry driver in Torbay, Devon.
UPDATED NOV 9, 2018

A 9-year-old child recently made a heartwrenching phone call to a charity in the UK begging for work so that she can help her family after delayed Universal Credit payments left her father without a job and penniless. The girl told the charity worker on the phone that her mother had died and that her father only recently lost his job as a lorry driver in Torbay, Devon. The family was reportedly left fighting to make ends meet. They were left without any food in the house after her father had to wait for five weeks for his first Universal Credit payment to be made.

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