WESTVILLE Senior Primary School learners collected more than 5 000 Easter eggs for the Westville Churches Food Bank outreach project.
“An enormous thank you goes out to our WSPS families for their donations of Easter eggs that will be distributed to those in need. On behalf of the management and staff of WSPS, I want to thank the parent body for their contributions, the generosity of their response and the spirit in which they support the community,” said the acting principal of the school, Patsy Pillay.
The Westville Food Bank launched in April 2020 as a joint initiative by 12 churches in Westville in direct response to the need for food that arose from the countrywide lockdown due to the global pandemic.
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“The aim of the Food Bank is to enable anyone, through their direct relationships, to identify a family in need of food and then refer them to the Food Bank through one of the churches, to receive a food parcel. A person doesn’t have to belong to a church to receive a parcel, they just need to know someone in one of the churches,” said the Westville Churches Food Bank representative, Kate Litzel.
Volunteers meet weekly to pack the food parcels which include essential items.
These are then distributed to families and individuals in need. Each parcel is tailored to suit the size of the family. Larger families will receive more food and those with infants will receive an additional baby parcel that contains formula, nappies, baby porridge and baby food. The standard food parcel consist of mealie meal, rice, tea, milk, soup powder, tinned meat, tinned fish, tinned vegetables, biscuits, oil and porridge.
In the last 12 months, the Westville Churches Food Bank has fed 8 400 people with the monthly food parcels and that were distributed to families in Westville, Cato Manor, central Durban, Reservoir Hills, Clermont, Pinetown, Mariannhill, Mariannridge, Cowies Hill, Botha’s Hill and Hammarsdale.
Caxton Local Media Covid-19 reporting
