The Need to Feed

Feeding people suffering from hunger in our communities is a critically important service we need to bring about in our daily lives. When reading the phrase, “the need to feed” two things come to mind, the first human instinct to nourish ourselves and others and secondly access to nutritious food. When we are born the first important item for a mother is to feed her newborn and throughout their life the need for nourishment never changes. It is mentioned in a Hadith that our Beloved Prophet (May peace and blessings be upon him) said, “The best of you are those who feed others.” (Ahmad).

Today we see many feeding schemes closing down due to the lack of support received. Recently when procuring ingredients we heard first hand the decrease of organisations purchasing ingredients and the concern that people in our communities are not being fed. From our experience we too see the decrease in funds received to achieve our objective of feeding the impoverished, destitute and orphaned in our communities. Having fed on average 17,000 people over the past year at a cost of approximately R2,20 per meal amounting to just under R40,000 per month has become extremely challenging. The lack of support has resulted in cookings having to be postponed but in order to remain consistent and continue we made a decision this week to decrease the cooking based on the available funds resulting in a total of 4,400 people on average being no fed in a month. The concern we have is regarding the 12,000 people not being fed by us and more so the overall amount of people not being fed by other organisations directly increasing hunger in our communities.

By the Will and Grace of the Almighty we were able to feed 2,200 people yesterday from the communities of Vrygrond, Khayelitsha, Manenberg, Retreat, Milnerton, Lavender Hill and Egoli. We would like to thank all of those that supported in cash and kind, it is much appreciated.

We would like to take the opportunity to Appeal to our communities to provide much needed financial assistance to allow us to fulfill our objectives of feeding those suffering from hunger in our communities. Please donate via our website or contact us on WhatsApp for the banking details.