category
Community Development
address
106 Mimosa St, Helderkruin, Roodepoort, 1724, South Africa
We help Children by providing food security.
How can you help?
Help Africa Food for Thought raise R80,000 for feeding hungry children on the West Rand.
Help Africa Food for Thought by donating single beds for families in our feeding programme.
More about Africa Food for Thought
Africa Food for Thought has been bringing food security to children across the West Rand of Johannesburg, South Africa since 2006. Our vision is to make sure that their children can focus on their studies and not need to worry about where their next meal is coming from. Although our promise is food, we also provide other support in aid of education throughout the year. We currently have five school feeding projects and fifty six creches receiving daily meals. We also provide food security to forty eight households caring for orphaned and vulnerable children. The households and creches are our main focus, with each household receiving a monthly food parcel for as long as their children are in school, and each creche child receiving two cooked meals and two snacks each day. Whilst we equip and supply the projects, it is the parents and community volunteers who run the project, do the cooking and serving. In this way, we encourage schools and communities to own the project, while we provide support. As our children we feed have gotten older, we have also started supporting them in their tertiary education through the Peter France Bursary Fund. Unemployment is staggeringly high in South Africa, and young people with a tertiary qualification of any sort are significantly more likely to be employed than those with only a Matric.
Photos
Planting trees at our creches.
Volunteers delivering Mandela Day parcels at our offices.
COVID 19 relief parcels being distributed.
COVID 19 food distribution at a partner creche.
A volunteer sorts stationery at our offices.