Today we faced a significant challenge by not having clean water available for cooking, but through perseverance and planning we did not succumb to this obstacle by cancelling the cooking. Although one takes for granted the blessings we are provided on a daily basis from our Creator, it’s moments like these that makes is reflect on these blessings.

Communities this weekend throughout the Cape Flats are either experiencing low water pressure or no water at all. This has significantly impacted our lives, however as the less fortunate has been impacted by having no water, we raise funds to provide bottled drinking water on the day with their warm meal.

We managed to collect 750 litres in containers for the cooking, which was used to make both soya and lamb Akni. Today we fed 2,000 people of the communities from Khayelitsha, Vrygrond, Egoli and Parkwood, May this food nourish them, provide relief from hunger and fill their minds with positivity.

We would like to thank the team, the sponsors and all those that assisted in this feeding initiative, May your lives be filled with good health and increased blessings.

“Nothing is softer, gentler or even more flexible than water, yet with these characteristics nothing is able to resist it.” May we reflect on our character and become gentle and humble ourselves to assist the impoverished and destitute.

See below pictures of todays feeding:

After a longtime we decided to cook Dhal curry and rice on a cold rainy day, which the people in the communities enjoyed thoroughly. Dhal is a balanced source of protein, carbs and even contains some healthy fat, the nutritional value is great for a healthy diet, therefore nutritional for our guests. How fortunate we were able to cook a hearty meal for the people in the surrounding impoverished communities.

Today we managed to feed approximately 2,500 mouths taking the total mouths fed to 56,850. The food was distributed to the communities of Khayelitsha, Vrygrond, Cape Town CBD, Lavender Hill, Egoli informal settlement and Parkwood. We thank the Almighty, the team, sponsors and everyone for your continued support to have made this feeding possible.

As Mahatma Gandhi said, “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread”. Together may we continue to provide hope to people suffering from hunger in our communities, being mere instruments used by the Almighty to serve his creation.

See below some pictures of yesterdays feeding:

As we learn nourishment means eating the food necessary for growth and good health. To us nourishment is not merely food which serves as a fuel, food is also about family and about community, which is cooked with love and shared with people in need. We would like to show our appreciation to our Creator for making today possible, for giving us the strength and for the relationships we build in our communities. Today we served Soya Akni, Lamb Akni and soup to the impoverished, orphaned and destitute, feeding 2,900 people.

We fed the communities of Khayelitsha, Lentegeur, Hillview, Parkwood and Vrygrond. It was so heartwarming providing a warm plate of food to people in our communities. We would like to thank our sponsors and everyone for your support in the preparation, cooking and distribution, without each one of you this would not have been possible.

As the saying goes, “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.” May all our efforts in fighting hunger continue for many years and through the mercy of the Almighty may poverty and hunger be eradicated.

See below pictures of todays feeding:

The Sanitary Pad Drive came about as a result of understanding that women in impoverished areas do not have access to items considered as a basic human right. In an announcement recently it was mentioned that approximately 7 million women in South Africa does not have access and cannot afford to buy sanitary pads. It is alarming that globally the World Bank estimates that at least 500 million women lack access to facilities to manage their menstruation, this has been named period poverty.

In Africa, 1 in 10 women miss school on a daily basis and many women make use of unhygienic methods to manage their menstruation. This is a significant issue not only does this cause harm to one’s health but also prevent women from going to school. Education is required to assist people facing the adversity of poverty, therefore we realised the need for providing sanitary pads.

Despite setting a target of a mere 0,02% of South Africa’s need being 2,000 sanitary pad packs, we also understand that this small contribution my assist women in impoverished communities. We managed to collect 2,578 (130% of target) sanitary pad packs through the mercy of the Almighty and each of your support in making this possible.

We have been afforded the opportunity to distribute these sanitary pads to schools in Lotus River and Lavender Hill, to the Vrygrond Community as well as to women homes in our surrounding communities. We aimed to allocate these packs to 1,300 women to provide them with comfort and proper hygiene for at least two months.

To all the women, hope you having an enjoyable Women’s Day and remember that being a woman is your superpower.

See below a few pics of the Sanitary Drive. Pics to be uploaded as sanitary pads is distributed. Thanks to all the sponsors for your support, it is appreciated.

We thank the Almighty for opening our eyes to assisting those in our communities in need and to be a channel that people can use to give back to the impoverished and destitute. What a journey it has been this far, we are extremely humbled by the many people that have assisted in contributing towards all our initiatives. We thank each and everyone of our sponsors, the team and the people in the communities assisting us with distribution, without each one of you this milestone would not have been possible to achieve. May each of you be blessed with good health, increased wealth in order that we together can continue this journey together for many years.

As we look back at each initiative, many times we have stretched ourselves with a target thinking it’s impossible, yet every time we are amazed by how things just come together in the end. It is so true that a good intention is key to obtaining the assistance we always need from the Almighty. As the saying goes we do our best and the Almighty does the rest.

Yesterday we fed 2,500 people in the communities of Delft, Manenberg, Lavender Hill, Pooke Road and the Vlei informal settlements, as well as Khayelitsha and Vrygrond taking the total mouths fed to date to 51,450.

As Nelson Mandela said, “Poverty is not an accident, like slavery and apartheid it is man-made and can be removed by actions of human beings.” May our community that we built continue to grow despite all the challenges we may face in our country and provide hope to people suffering from the adversity of poverty on a daily basis.

We humbly thank each one of you for your support, together we can achieve more. See below some pictures of yesterdays feeding.

Mandela Day celebrated on the 18 July this month is a day dedicated to the legacy of the late, great Nelson Mandela who was a civil rights leader and South Africa’s first black president. The spirit of Mandela Day is all about taking action, inspiring change and making a difference in our communities!

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is the difference we made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead” – Nelson Mandela. This quote is inspiring as it shows the importance of how we should strive to make a difference in our communities by fighting to alleviate hunger, providing hope to people in a state of hopelessness and to empower people to make a meaningful impact in our communities.

We continued our journey with Ayo Technology Solutions Limited this month to provide food to 2,000 people in Parkwood and Prestwich Primary School. The school has 720 learners, of which approximately 90% of the learners come from informal settlements and travel to school on a daily basis to seek education. We wanted to celebrate their efforts persevering on a daily basis, trying to overcome the adversity of poverty through education.

We were fortunate not only to feed the learners and teachers, but their parents and the surrounding residents living along the streets in tents. How humbled we were providing a plate of warm nutritious food to our guests. We would like to thank Ayo Technology Solutions Limited for taking this step and for their support in making this possible, with partnerships like these we can make a difference in our communities. With Unity there is strength and together we can achieve more.

See below some pictures of yesterdays initiative:

This week we experienced something beyond our imagination, how nothing in life is by mere chance even people we meet along the way. Do we ever ponder and think how we came alone in this world, how we meet many people within our lives, yet we will leave this world alone? Who we meet in our lives is therefore not by mere chance, it is part of the blessings of the Almighty for us to reflect, draw lessons from their wisdom and build a relationship which benefits ourselves and our communities. However, when depart from this world alone, our actions, the relationships we built and the hearts we touched will continue to echo long after we are gone.

When people come together, we are able to achieve things, that which we thought was initially impossible. This is the beauty of the Almighty, blessing us when there is togetherness and people are united. We all are striving to assist in the alleviation of poverty and hunger in our communities, with many foundations and individuals focusing on this key objective. We have realised that in order to make a greater impact in the lives of the impoverished and destitute, we need to come together to support one another. We need to realise that we are merely instruments of the Almighty being used to answer others prayers and that we can achieve more if we work together.

Yesterday we managed to feed 2,500 people of the communities of Manenberg, Lotus River, Athlone, Parkwood and Lavender Hill taking the total mouths fed to date to 46,550 people. With partnerships with Ayo Technology Solutions Limite we were able to provide pots to the Lavender Hill and Manenberg communities in order to equip people of these communities to continue feeding on a regular basis. The feeding initiative would not have been successful without the support of the kitchens in the communities. These two partnerships shows that the Almighty blesses initiatives where people work together.

We would like to thank all the sponsors and the team for your continuous support, May the Almighty continue to bless you and allow us to continue this journey in assisting those in need within our communities. As it is profoundly mentioned, if we pick up one end of the stick, we also pick up the other. This shows us that together we can uplift one another and achieve much more if we are unified than working alone.

Below are a few pictures of our feeding yesterday:

How many of has the ability to be able to be our children’s nurturer and protector. Unfortunately some children grow up at different ages not having that parental figure in their lives. According to statistics in 2018, there were 2.7 million orphans in South Africa. This includes children without a living biological mother, father or both parents, which is equivalent to 14% of all children in South Africa. The poorest households in our country carry the greatest burden of care for orphans with close to half of all orphans residing in the poorest of households in our country. Each year the amount of children that become orphaned increases around 4%.

We have had the honour of dealing with orphanages and the foster mothers and fathers that have taken on this responsibility of nurturing and caring for these children. These include Ghafoor Charity, Orphans of Surrey Estate and Vision amongst others. The sacrifices that these special people make to care for these orphaned children overwhelms us as they shared their stories of their journey with these kids.

In a beautiful verse of the Quran, the Almighty indicates that orphans should be honoured and respected. Over the past few days we managed to distribute Eid gift boxes to 100 orphaned children. Not only does this small gesture provide hope to the orphaned but it eliminates the feeling of loneliness as they feel loved. It is amazing how these little faces light up and are filled with joy upon receiving a gift.

We would like to thank the sponsors that donated towards this initiative, may you be rewarded for honouring, caring and respecting the rights of those orphaned children.

Everything in life has a beginning and an end, created by the Almighty for a purpose. Similarly, the Almighty created everything in pairs or opposites, whether night and day, hot and cold, happiness and sadness or male and female . The purpose of this is for us to reflect and ponder regarding the Creator and his creation.

We look at the growth of a seed, how the ground is generous taking in compost and allow the seed to grow beautifully. Not only is there lessons to be learnt from ground, but for us to understand the growth of the seed into a plant. In our daily lives growth is important, whether for self development, for our spirituality, the growth of our children or even our business and career. In many instances in our lives we need to continue to move forward, learn from things that happened in the past and find our way to grow in all aspects of our lives.

As an organisation, 15 months ago we were able to feed 10% being 250 people in one sitting, today we feed 2,500 people. This growth has been exponential in this short time frame, however this growth is not by mere chance, it is a result of each one of us working together to provide for those suffering from hunger and most importantly the assistance from the Almighty God. Although growth may seem uncomfortable at first, the main reason for this is that we have not been in this position before. Our children are the future of tomorrow, in a country facing challenges of gangsterism, drugs, kidnapping amongst other things we need to nurture our children to become better human beings which may have a positive effect on society. They should be taught to love all of creation, to always show acts of kindness despite this not being reciprocated and to be compassionate and care for those faced with adversities.

Today we fed the communities of Khayelitsha, Manenberg, Lavender Hill, Lotus River, Grassy Park and Vrygrond. Many people in these communities suffer from poverty and hunger. In winter months when it is cold hunger becomes even more challenging as people seek food amongst other things to provide warmth.

May we all be a means to assist those in need, even if it be in the form of providing hope and warmth with a plate a food. We would like to thank all our sponsors and the team for your continuous support to make this possible, may we continue to grow together on this journey to allow those in need to benefit from our actions. As Nelson Mandela said, “It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences and that if people can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

See below some pictures of todays feeding:

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.

Below are some pictures: