Celebrate your year-end with impact
Help the needy this festive season.
Do something different for your year-end function and help the hungry.
On December 6, Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa will attempt to break the 2012 record (100 000 meals) by packaging 200 000 meals in 12 hours, at the Germiston warehouse.
The meal packaging event will be broken into five shifts of two hours each.
Between 6am and 6pm, 40 000 meals per shift will be packaged by 150 volunteers.
These volunteers will form a human production line to decant the ingredients (rice, soya, dehydrated vegetables and a sachet which contains 23 essential vitamins and minerals) into meal bags.
The meal bag provides six adult size portions and can feed up to 10 children.
The meal bag costs R16.50, with each meal costing only R2.75.
By celebrating your 2013 year-end participating in this Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa event you can make an impact on the lives of 1 300 hungry little children (by ensuring that they receive a cooked meal daily).
The period over December is known as the “Season of Giving” — you can give the gift of food security to the children receiving the meals for an entire year and, in doing so, make every day a Mandela Day.
Barry Mey, chief executive officer of Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa, said: “Just imagine 200 000 meals being packed – that’s 1 300 children’s food security for the whole year of 2014.
“What a way to end 2013, and most think 13 is an unlucky number. I don’t think so.”
The Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa meals that are packaged will be distributed to early childhood development centres, day care centres and crèches in Alexandra, Daveyton, Diepsloot, Germiston, Katlehong, Makause informal settlement, Orange Farm, Rabie Ridge, Soweto and Tembisa.
Established in the USA, in 1998, by Dr Ray Buchanan, Stop Hunger Now is an international organisation that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid worldwide.
In response to the dire need in Southern Africa, Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa, a Section 21 company, was founded in Johannesburg, in September 2009.
The organisation offers a social investment opportunity to provide fully balanced meals for pre-school children, necessary for their holistic development.
The organisation depends on passionate, active volunteers for meal packaging events and food distribution.
The programme has solid, measurable results and restores hope to hungry children.
For more information regarding this event, contact barrym@stophungernowsa.org, or visit the website www.stophungernowsa.org.
