PUPILS at King David School Linksfield have launched an initiative to help nourish children in Alexandra.
e’Pap saw 170 Grade 8 pupils making peanut butter sandwiches for the children at the Linda Twala Community Centre.
e’Pap CEO Basil Kransdorff said that, apart from current mainstream approaches to fortification, nutrition absorption is also important.
Kransdorff said, “Our aim is to deliver the missing micro nutrients in a whole food that is affordable to everyone and to address hidden hunger so that both brain and body can perform optimally, as nature designed it. We want to fight poverty and hunger on our continent.”
Atlas Finance CEO Jack Halfon, who donated peanut butter PLUS in support of the project, said it was a joint effort so children not affected by hunger could make a difference in the lives others – living only a few kilometres from them. Halford said, “We believe in e’Pap being a solution to the malnutrition problem in South Africa.”
One of the pupils, Hannah Bloch said, “When I go home to eat lunch every day, I am grateful, therefore I want to give the underprivileged a chance to also come home to food.”
Another pupil, Zara Maloon, said it was good to give back and make someone else smile.
In his appreciation, the community centre’s Linda Thwala said, “There’s so much to be done in this country… if we do this together, I think we can make it. If we want to decrease crime in South Africa let’s meet our children’s demands head on; e’Pap is a very effective nutrition project for children.”
