City of Joburg attempts to eradicate hunger
JOBURG - Hundreds of non-governmental organisations work with global giants to fight hunger in Joburg.
By the end of February, it will be a reality that Joburg residents will be able to purchase fresh food produce at Joburg City’s Saturday Farmers’ Market.
“On Friday, we pledged as the City to support existing initiatives and formulated ways of strengthening them by supplying them with produce from the City’s Food Bank, courtesy of the Joburg Fresh Produce Market, and to create a single database of beneficiaries of food parcels in the City,” Wandile Zwane, the City’s Executive Head of Social Development, responded to the fact that research has indicated most soup kitchens have run out of the owners’ pockets.
The project was awarded the Mma-Tshepo Khumbane Award in 2011 by the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Best Community-Based Natural Resources Management Project category.
Bambanani, the result of a collaboration between the City and the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, was registered as a co-operative in 2007. The City provided it with vegetable seeds and land to develop the communal garden.
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