Soup kitchen for dump settlers

The residents of the Randfontein dumping site informal settlement were treated to a pop-up soup kitchen by members of the Capitec Bank branch in Randfontein.

Children were the first to be served soup almost as though it was an unspoken rule among the community that the children should be the first to get food and the adults were to get anything that was left over.

Children came out in their numbers and stood in line singing songs while staff set up the pop-up soup kitchen. Every child present received a cup of soup, a few slices of bread and an orange for dessert.

Later, older children, women, and men stood in line for the same. The children, with their full tummies and oranges in hand, participated in an educational song time with some of the staff.

According to Lena Ernst, organiser, the staff decided to put money together to care for people in the community.

I wanted us to reach out to the community in those places where people do not go and where the people are forgotten,” she explained.

Ernst says that they gathered enough money to sponsor three pots of soup, 30 loaves of bread and seven bags of oranges.

The branch is looking at having a soup kitchen at the informal settlement once a month but are also looking at other such places and organisations to extend a helping hand to.

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