Domino Foundation feeds those in need during the holidays
While we prepare for our elaborate Christmas lunches, many families and children are not getting basic food. The Domino Foundation works together with several organisations to provide food for those in need in several areas.
THE Domino Foundation’s volunteers continue to feed children throughout the holidays and encourage the community to help them by donating peanut butter.
“Whether your favourite festive fare in this season is a brandy-doused plum pudding or an upmarket iteration of malva pudding, glazed gammon or Karoo lamb with a spekboom and cape-gooseberry pickle, it is easy to forget that there are many in our communities for whom getting enough good food, just for today, is a challenge,” said communications officer Rowan Phillips.
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With the advent of the Christmas holidays, step-siblings, 10-year-old Grace Heylen and eight-year-old Mika Manan, joined their grandmother, Delene Peterson, at The Domino Foundation’s Toti kitchens at Kingsway Church International (KCi) in Doonside, to make a mini mountain of peanut butter sandwiches.
The sandwiches were sent to several destinations where children, who otherwise would go hungry during the day, gather throughout the holidays. One destination is Young Stars Nutrition in Illovo, where Thandeka Duma provides breakfast every morning and sandwiches later in the day to children of all ages.
Three of KCi’s beneficiary churches also give sandwiches during the week to children who attend their Sunday Schools.
“In all four cases, the children are largely from either child-headed households or ones where the ‘gogos’ care for them because the parents are in dire poverty or are entirely absent,” said Phillips.
Between buttering slices, Grace said, “When my granny told me about the children who have little to no healthy food, not just at Christmas, I thought helping make sandwiches would be a good Christmas present to give them.”
Cheryl Dann, who heads up Domino’s South Nutrition programme, said their kitchen closed on December 14, but they will be giving bread and peanut butter to the crèches to make their own sandwiches, so the little ones can be fed throughout the holidays.
Anyone wanting to donate to this effort can contact Cheryl Dann at nutritionsouth@domino.org.za or 087 821 6089.
