The popular and buzzing Bellevue Café in Kloof was re-purposed late April to cook much-needed meals, which will be distributed by NPO Zero2Five Trust to the needy for the duration of the lockdown. Since then, the project has grown from strength to strength.

Six days every week, at least 500kg of chicken stew is cooked in several steaming pots in the restaurant’s kitchen, decanted into five-litre sealed buckets and taken into marginalised communities all over KZN.

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Rolling out an average of 100 buckets containing 800 meals per day, with 1kg rice on the side, Bellevue Café has yet to purchase a single ingredient.

Generous corporate sponsors and many individuals stream in on a daily basis to drop off vegetables in all shapes and colours, making this project a huge success.

To date, a massive eight tons of cooked meals have been distributed. Zero2Five Trust also received an enormous 1421 food relief parcels from the eNCA / HCI Foundation national campaign, leaving many needy families equipped with a Bellevue stew bucket and a box of food to last a family of four for another four weeks.

The delicious stews have been delivered to rural areas as far as Zululand to the north and Loskop in the Drakensberg.

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