THE Morningside-based Victor Daitz Foundation recently funded a project that provides nutritious meals to the Amaoti community.
For a number of years, The Domino Foundation’s Brookdale kitchen has been preparing soup for crèches in Amaoti.
According to The Domino Foundation, the area sees more than its fair share of vandalism and crime, and the kitchen’s water and electricity supplies have been tampered with, the security fencing damaged, and the nutrition staff have been mugged.
Cathy Whittle, leader of Domino’s Brookdale kitchen programme said the facility has now been refurbished in a new and far safer location at Christ Church Phoenix.
“We were battling unequal odds at Brookdale, and still last year were managing to supply hundreds of thousands of bowls of soup and porridge, either made on the premises or by the crèches with ingredients prepared by our kitchen staff. Then, a door swung wide open for us to partner with Christ Church Phoenix who had the space available, and with our long-time friends at the Morningside-based Victor Daitz Foundation who generously have funded the project,” said Whittle.
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“There was a basic hall begging for development, and the project has seen that space transformed into a very workable kitchen, storeroom and gas-cylinder storage area. A driveway has been constructed, fencing put in around the perimeter and around the kitchen itself, plus separate toilet facilities with wheelchair access,” she added.
Victor Daitz’s managing trustee David Simpson added that the organisation has a special concern for the well-being and education of marginalised children in our communities.
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“Knowing that coming alongside Domino in this exercise would greatly increase their capacity to get much-needed nutritious food to those children was all we needed to make the decision to fund it,” he said.
Rev Jonathan Moonien, the pastor at Christ Church, added, “We are delighted to partner with Domino in this way to care for vulnerable, hungry people.”
The church will have access to the facilities, and a serving hatch has been installed so that community events like weddings and funerals can utilise the space, as well.
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