Sibaya Community Trust sponsors custom-built R400 000 soup kitchen for informal settlement

An informal settlement just south of Umdloti within the boundary of the Cornubia Integrated Human Settlement Development, has been gifted with a R400 000 fully-functional and custom-built soup kitchen courtesy of the Sibaya Community Trust.

The Blackburn informal settlement is home to about 8 000 people, of whom many are unemployed or migrant workers looking for piece jobs.

Chairman of the Sibaya Community Trust, Vivian Reddy, said the living conditions residents at Blackburn face are ‘challenging’.

To help alleviate the hardships, the trust decided to build and install the soup kitchen, which can be found at the Ithuba Centre.

“It is indeed a blessing to save people from the discomfort of hunger,” Reddy said.

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The trust has also committed to assist with groceries until June 30, and will provide utensils and other equipment to ensure the functionality of the soup kitchen.

“The fight against hunger is crucial, it helps reduce crime arising from starvation.”

These are, however, not the only projects undertaken by the trust, with funding to the tune of R750 000 approved for the upgrading of a building within the centre’s grounds.

This will be used for many social, recreational and entrepreneurial programmes to be introduced.

As part of Reddy’s birthday celebrations, Blackburn’s children were treated to cake and other treats, and were presented with school bags, stationery, lunch boxes and juice bottles.

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