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Environmental Health Services, Social Development, Joburg Market and Heart and Stroke Foundation gathered at Fred & Marties Soup Kitchen in Claremont, Region B, for the World Food Day Event on Friday, 21 October 2022. The purpose of the event was to raise awareness of the world food problem and assisting soup kitchens in the community with food and donations.
One of the owners of a soup kitchen, Yolindie Oberholzer, said: “The soup kitchen plays a significant role within the community through providing food parcels every second week and feeding at least 400 people every day children are also assisted with after school programmes uniform and stationery.”
Social Development Food Resilient Unit provided the community with gardening seeds and did a demonstration on how to plant them.
Gladness Boikanyo from the City of Johannesburg’s Urban Agriculture Management said: “Our unit donated 10 packs of vegetables for the World Food Day because the unit’s core programme focuses on gardening, encouraging food security and sustainability.”
The Heart and Stroke Foundation encouraged participants to make informed decisions regarding their food in terms of maintaining nourishment.
The foundation’s Emma Siluma said: “We believe this initiative will help expose a healthy living lifestyle, which will reduce issues of strokes, heart diseases, hypertension and heart attacks.”
Environmental Health Services also raised awareness on food handling, temperature control, hygiene and washing of hands. Its Operational Manager Morne Swart said: “It is important to give the community knowledge on why they should do things a certain way such as washing their hands and wearing proactive gear when handing food.”
Written by Abongile Guntu
24/10/2022
