You’re not you when you’re hungry is one of the world’s most famous campaign slogans. Its power has been borrowed buy Quiet Storm to help the Women’s Equality Party raise awareness about child poverty. The digital campaign doesn’t use political language. Instead it speaks in a vernacular that everyone understands, the language of food ads.

The campaign calls on thenew Labour government to take action on the issue that wasn’t talked about nearly loudly enough during the election and lift the two-child benefit cap, and asks all Brits to to contact their MPs and hold the new government to account for ending the two-child benefit cap.  Right now a third of all children in the UK are in poverty, and the two-child benefit cap is directly linked, leaving 300,000 children on the breadline.

The campaign breaks on July 16, marking the launch of the Women’s Equality Party’s long-term campaign to bring an end to child poverty and the two-child benefit limit.

Sophia Moreau, deputy leader of the Women’s Equality Party, stated, “This campaign is all about shining a light on the crisis that was overlooked time and again over the election. It is shameful that right now, a third of children in the UK are living in poverty. The fact of the matter is that governmental failures have paved a path of destruction bulldozing through our NHS, cutting gaping holes in our local services, and it is women, minoritised groups and children paying the highest price.

“Child poverty is out of control, and we cannot go on like this. Every child deserves to thrive. That’s why the Women’s Equality Party have launched this campaign with Quiet Storm to demand that the Labour Party steps up and delivers the ambitious policies that we need to reverse the years of austerity that got us here. Scrapping the deplorable two-child limit is the place to start.

Adele Meer, head of planning at Quiet Storm, added, “In the furore of an election it’s impossible to cut through politics with more politics, so we had to find another way to highlight the almost complete lack of policy on poverty from other political parties. 

“The stats on it are staggering – and it’s been 20 years and six prime ministers since the UK last saw a sustained fall in poverty. The Women’s Equality Party is right to demand that the new government must make poverty a priority. Single parents are most likely to live in poverty, 90% of whom are women. And if we can’t create a society where children don’t go hungry, we will never live in an equal society. We know the Snickers campaign has had a huge impact – bravo AMV – and so if it takes piggy-backing on that to get poverty on the agenda, so be it.”

Credits:

Agency: Quiet Storm
Executive creative Director: Trevor Robinson
Creative Director :Seb Jamous
Creatives:  Toufic Beyhum, Shona Reilly, Lily Le Moine
Planner: Adele Meer 
Account Director: Jenna Hayward
Designer; Georgia Wilkinson