Project Feed The Children in dire need of donations

Project Feed the Children (PFTC) has been hit hard by the pandemic and they need your help to continue to feed children within poor communities.

The NPO, situated in the N12 informal settlement in Cloverdene, takes care of orphaned and vulnerable children.

The centre was established in 2011 to care for, teach, and feed children in the informal and rural settlements of Benoni.

At the centre, they have a library, a kitchen, a community centre, and early childhood development (ECD) classrooms.

They also provide counselling to children, mothers, and young adults within the settlement.

CEO of PFTC, Dumisani Madi, said due to the pandemic they had to stop providing breakfast, lunch, and a snack for the 159 children in Cloverdene and Daveyton daily.

The centre now caters for 30 children, while they had to close down the Etwatwa campus and had to also stop giving out food parcels.

“This has affected us badly because some of our sponsors had to close down their businesses and some of our individual donors have lost their jobs so it has been a difficult time,” said Madi.

“It breaks our hearts when we see a family or community member who is in need and we can’t assist them because we also don’t have enough food. However, at times we do share the little that we have with them so they don’t go to bed hungry.”

Madi said they would appreciate donations of food as their children from the ECD centre depend on these meals because some of them are orphans while parents of the other children are unemployed.

The organisation is grateful for the sandwiches they receive from St Dunstan’s College every Tuesdays.

There are 12 volunteers at the centre who are residents from the community and they assist on a daily basis.

Madi said they urge any businesses to assist them with a new bakkie as they were involved in a car accident with his wife Carol Madi in October and the vehicle was written off.

Madi said they were unable to fulfill their goals for 2020 which included training four new ECD teachers, to employ more people from the informal settlement, to maintain their feeding scheme program, and to refocus on the empowerment training program in Cloverdene.

“Our golf day was also cancelled and we were looking forward to it,” he said.

The organisation needs the following items: canned food, maize meal, samp, rice, salt, soya, flour, sugar, pasta, washing powder, cooking oil, spices, vegetables, cleaning items, stationery, blankets, toys, clothes (birth to elderly), new kitchen sink and PPE.

To donate contact Madi on 071 301 9109 or visit www.projectfeedthechildren.org

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