Help Wentworth Angels in their fight against hunger
The organisation assists single parent households affected by poverty and unemployment.
IN its efforts to keep their doors open, Wentworth Angels is calling on the community to lend a helping hand in the midst of these unprecedented times.
The organisation assists single parent households affected by poverty and unemployment.
“Unemployment has risen within and in surrounding communities. Our youth and adults are resorting to prostitution, theft and selling drugs to provide a meal for their families. We strive to assist these disadvantaged homes in every way possible monthly with the bare necessities for their families to receive nutrition, while also looking for employment for mothers and fathers. Currently, with the cost of everything rising during lockdown, we have opened a soup kitchen where we cook and serve a hot meal 7 days a week.
“The rate of hunger has increased daily and we are feeding 800 to 1000 in Merebank, Wentworth, Bluff and Seaview. We are not looking for cash but the ingredients to assist with our day-to-day cooking. The spices for a week alone cost us an average of R2000. We serve healthy nutritional meals. I firmly believe that we must serve other what we would eat,” said Wentworth Angels founder, Tracey-Leigh Williams.
The team mainly requests food and ingredient donations but also welcome cash donations in their mission to make sure that nobody goes to bed hungry in the community. “We require all the assistance we can get in order to keep our pots from running dry. We have allocated all key areas in the community for the feeding points and we also deliver meals to our pensioners at their doors,” she said.
For more information contact Tracey-Leigh on 074-703-1393. Cash donations can be made to the following account details; Standard Bank, Ac name: Wentworth Angels, Acc Number : 051579227, Branch code: 051001, Swift Code: SBZAZAJJ, Reference: Lockdown
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