Wild Coast Sun helps pack parcels to feed the hungry
Meals to feed about 59 000 preschool children, three times a week for the school year,, were packed.
As part of their Mandela Day celebrations, management and staff of the Wild Coast Sun Hotel and Casino Resort joined forces with the Rise Against Hunger organisation and several volunteers recently to pack close to 40 000 food parcels to alleviate the plight of hungry children in underprivileged communities across South Africa.
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Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief organisation that distributes food to the world’s most vulnerable, mobilising the necessary resources to end hunger by 2030.
This year, employees from Time Square in Pretoria, GrandWest in Cape Town, Carnival City in Brakpan, The Boardwalk in Port Elizabeth, Sibaya in Durban, Meropa in Polokwane, Windmill in Bloemfontein and the Wild Coast Sun Hotel and Casino Resort, together with the Rise Against Hunger organisation and other businesses worked together in packing enough meals to feed about 59 000 preschool children three times a week for the school year.
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Peter Tshidi the general manager of the Wild Coast Sun Hotel and Casino Resort said in the past three years Sun International has helped pack over five million meals at its properties with the help of volunteers.
“The meals are highly nutritious and comprise rice, soya, dehydrated vegetable mix and a fortification pack of 23 essential minerals and vitamins specially formulated to combat malnutrition.
The theme for this year’s meal packing drive is ‘This is Possible.’ In South Africa, millions of children go hungry every day, with hunger killing more people annually than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined,” he said.
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