The Daily Dispatch and Hemingways Mall have paired up and joined the global challenge to stop hunger by filling stomachs.
The Stop Hunger Now campaign in honour of International Mandela Day on July 18 is a world first.
The campaign – which is led by South Africa – seeks to package 10million meals, twomillion of which will be packed in this country.
All meals packed in each province will remain in the province and will be distributed to children in early childhood development facilities.
The theme of the initiative is “Follow the Sun” because it will start in Malaysia in the east and end in Peru in the west.
The Eastern Cape is one of the poorest provinces in the country and, with Limpopo, has the highest number of children living in poverty.
Almost 40.3% of Eastern Cape households rely on the government’s social grants, which is the highest level of grant dependency in the country, and a further 89.2% of learners are supported by school feeding schemes, according to Statistics SA.
“It was easy to choose the Eastern Cape as a beneficiary province for the nutritious meals,” said the CEO of Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa, Saira Khan.
The initiative was started to create awareness about hunger and malnutrition and to urge people to do something about it.
In 67 minutes, a 20-person line of volunteers packs enough food to feed a child a nutritious meal every day for a year.
The initiative also seeks to encourage employee volunteering and to create a global movement of people working together to honour Madiba’s legacy by living that legacy.
“Every day should be a Mandela Day and hence the approach this year is to make it an eight-day international event,” Khan said.
SA celebrity chef and Mdantsane local Siba Mtongana has been named a brand ambassador for Global Mandela Day 2016: Follow the Sun.
She was present at the initiative’s launch at Alexandria Township recently and lent a hand by cooking a meal for children there on July 4.
Hemingways will be hosting four 67-minute sessions with 15 of the production lines made up of 20 volunteers working 10am and 6pm next Sunday.
To participate as a corporate team or as a sponsor costs R10000 per team of 20 people.
Entry forms are available on request from nadines@stophungernowsa.org.
The campaign also seeks cash donations to allow for more student involvement in packaging the meals.
Campaign to feed the hungry honours Mandela memory
The Stop Hunger Now campaign in honour of International Mandela Day on July 18 is a world first.
The campaign – which is led by South Africa – seeks to package 10million meals, twomillion of which will be packed in this country.
All meals packed in each province will remain in the province and will be distributed to children in early childhood development facilities.
The theme of the initiative is “Follow the Sun” because it will start in Malaysia in the east and end in Peru in the west.
The Eastern Cape is one of the poorest provinces in the country and, with Limpopo, has the highest number of children living in poverty.
Almost 40.3% of Eastern Cape households rely on the government’s social grants, which is the highest level of grant dependency in the country, and a further 89.2% of learners are supported by school feeding schemes, according to Statistics SA.
“It was easy to choose the Eastern Cape as a beneficiary province for the nutritious meals,” said the CEO of Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa, Saira Khan.
The initiative was started to create awareness about hunger and malnutrition and to urge people to do something about it.
In 67 minutes, a 20-person line of volunteers packs enough food to feed a child a nutritious meal every day for a year.
The initiative also seeks to encourage employee volunteering and to create a global movement of people working together to honour Madiba’s legacy by living that legacy.
“Every day should be a Mandela Day and hence the approach this year is to make it an eight-day international event,” Khan said.
SA celebrity chef and Mdantsane local Siba Mtongana has been named a brand ambassador for Global Mandela Day 2016: Follow the Sun.
She was present at the initiative’s launch at Alexandria Township recently and lent a hand by cooking a meal for children there on July 4.
Hemingways will be hosting four 67-minute sessions with 15 of the production lines made up of 20 volunteers working 10am and 6pm next Sunday.
To participate as a corporate team or as a sponsor costs R10000 per team of 20 people.
Entry forms are available on request from nadines@stophungernowsa.org.
The campaign also seeks cash donations to allow for more student involvement in packaging the meals.
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