YOUR "Bin It!" campaign rumbles on and many people are anxious about the quantity of domestic waste that they will have to cram into their grey bins.

Much of this is food waste, creating a health hazard. It seems that we buy too much food, do not eat it all within the recommended time and simply bin it unused.

This is appalling and it was amazing to see on the TV programme No Waste Like Home how much money is thrown away because of impulsive shopping.

The people that we work with through Project Malawi Trust find it difficult to believe that people would throw food away. There is a famine in Malawi, southern Africa, now. The harvest was nonexistent in some areas and people are dying of starvation.

Our Malawian partners working in the south of the country are pleading with us to send more money to buy food to feed the people in the villages who have no crops, no cash and nothing left to sell.

In August, through the generosity of our church and friends, we were able to send money to buy 300 bags of maize and pay for transport and distribution. A bag of maize feeds a family of six for a month.

Now the price of maize has doubled and the situation is desperate.

We are able to get food aid to the people that governments and non-governmental organisations can't reach. Please, people of York, help us to help them: buy less, give more.

Gillian Mason,

Project Malawi Trust,

Tadcaster Road,

Dringhouses, York.

Updated: 10:14 Saturday, October 22, 2005