Poverty in our country has become extreme as we witness many more people homeless, people living in tents alongside our roads and an increase in people begging at robots. In a report from the UN Human Development Index and Human Development it states that, “South Africa is grappling with great inequalities, which contribute to extreme poverty. The United Nations’ 17 Global Goals together work towards ending extreme poverty and its systemic causes. Yet these goals can only be achieved if unequal countries like South Africa come to terms with serious inequalities and work towards sustainable solutions to eradicate poverty. In our country we have less than 10% of people possessing more than 50% of the countries income, whereas approximately 20% of people in our country lives on R28 a day, less than R1,000 a month.
Just imagine that one in five people suffers from extreme poverty! Yes our country requires investment in infrastructure to sustainably assist our communities to provide education and create job opportunities, but this remains a challenge as government officials spend billions on wasteful expenditure. This has resulted an increased activity whereby communities are taking the law into their own hands, whether it be to fight crime or assist with providing food to people. Since covid many more organisations were started to assist in poverty relief, but we each can play a role in the interim to assist in the alleviation of poverty in our country, whether it be with shelter, food or another means.
What you can do to make a difference is to contribute in anyway towards these initiatives with the aim of alleviating poverty. In our holy scriptures, our Creator asks us, “Were you not created for a purpose?” Yes that purpose is to worship him, but have we considered our role in being of assistance to his creation? As humans we all want to make a difference and at times we feel empty, but let’s strive to fill our emptiness with serving humanity. May our efforts allow us to remain humble, make us more generous and allow us to be the means to the impoverished, orphaned and destitute.
Today we managed to feed 2,500 people of Khayelitsha, Vrygrond, Lavender Hill, Manenberg, Mitchells Plain, Parkwood and Egoli informal settlement taking the total mouths fed to 42,550. These are communities where many people are unemployed and high criminal activity due to gangsterism and drugs.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank the team and all our sponsors for your support and generosity, together we can make a difference.
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