Food Forward SA
Food Forward SA was established in 2009 to address widespread hunger in South Africa. They connect a world of excess to a world of need by recovering quality edible surplus food from the consumer good supply chain and distributing it to communities.
We spoke on the phone with Andy Du Plessis who is The Managing Director at Food Forward SA.
Having food or enough of it is truly a national crisis. The South African National Health and Nutrition Examination found that in urban areas, 28% of households were at risk of hunger while 26% were already experiencing hunger, in rural areas, 32 to 36% of people don't eat. People are hungry or at risk, skipping meals or going for days without food... It is estimated that 14 millions of South Africans don't have food. Meanwhile, good, non-expired, edible 10 million tonnes of food go to waste each year.
Food Forward SA takes good and edible foods from retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers, farmers ect to redistribute them to registered organisations and associations. 600 organisations receive foods from the Organisation for only R350 a year in order to provide greater access to food for vulnerable groups of people in our Country, 250.000 people are fed daily
A South Africa without hunger can only be possible with your help, get involved through donations, volunteerism.
For more information contact
Tel: 021 531 5670
Email: info@foodforward.org
Web: www.foodforward.org
By: Panphil Tshisumpa
We spoke on the phone with Andy Du Plessis who is The Managing Director at Food Forward SA.
Having food or enough of it is truly a national crisis. The South African National Health and Nutrition Examination found that in urban areas, 28% of households were at risk of hunger while 26% were already experiencing hunger, in rural areas, 32 to 36% of people don't eat. People are hungry or at risk, skipping meals or going for days without food... It is estimated that 14 millions of South Africans don't have food. Meanwhile, good, non-expired, edible 10 million tonnes of food go to waste each year.
Food Forward SA takes good and edible foods from retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers, farmers ect to redistribute them to registered organisations and associations. 600 organisations receive foods from the Organisation for only R350 a year in order to provide greater access to food for vulnerable groups of people in our Country, 250.000 people are fed daily
A South Africa without hunger can only be possible with your help, get involved through donations, volunteerism.
For more information contact
Tel: 021 531 5670
Email: info@foodforward.org
Web: www.foodforward.org
By: Panphil Tshisumpa
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