Lend a hand to the hungry
If you have over catered for an event, this is where you can drop off extra food.
NOT all needy citizens have access to grants and in many cases poverty breeds ignorance, so that many potential legitimate beneficiaries do not know how to get help.
Reducing poverty is seen as the world’s greatest challenge and in South Africa it is counted as one of the country’s triple threats, the other two being unemployment and inequality.
The research titled ‘Is South Africa Operating in a Safe and Just Space?’ says that the future of South Africa depends on the country’s ability to end social deprivation and manage environmental stress, enabling its people to live in a space where it is both safe and just.
Over half of South Africans live below the national poverty line and more than 10% live in extreme poverty, on less than R15.85 per day.
Mother Teresa once said, ‘If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one’.
As the festive season celebrations escalate, many organisations and families tend to over cater for various events.
Richards Bay Pastor, Neil Walford, together with a Ministers Fraternal, run a soup kitchen Monday to Friday at 6pm at the uMhlathuze Civic Centre.
Although the kitchen will be closed from 22 December and reopen on 11 January, those who have extra food are welcome to drop it off at the municipal building canteen and the church overseeing kitchen duty on the day will serve the meals accordingly.
Alternatively contact Pastor Neil Walford for assistance or information on organisations in need of a meal this Christmas on 083 2935623.
