Holgate distributes 1.2 million meals during Covid
The Kingsley Holgate Foundation and Land Rover have helped to feed thousands of rural homesteads since the start of lockdown just over a year ago.
They successfully distributed more than 1.2 million meals to vulnerable communities in South Africa.
This is part of their ‘Feeding the Wildlife Community’ Covid-19 humanitarian relief effort.
With the support of a group of partners and volunteers, together with Land Rover which has mobilised the foundation by supplying two new Defender 110s, Kingsley and his team of humanitarian adventurers have helped to feed thousands of rural homesteads with a focus on mothers and vulnerable children.
The Foundation’s ‘Feeding the Wildlife Community’ mission kicked off just over a year ago intending to deliver much-needed assistance to communities bordering conservation areas hard-hit by the collapse of the tourism industry under the pandemic.
The Foundation’s two new Defender 110s have each clocked over 30,000km negotiating Mzansi’s toughest terrains in efforts to assist hard-to-reach areas.
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The Expedition Team now aims to reach the two million meals distributed mark for those still facing hunger in the year to come.
“Good news stories are very welcome over this challenging time and we’re constantly impressed by the number of caring people and organisations that have stepped up to assist those in need during this seemingly endless Covid-19 pandemic,” said the global Land Rover ambassador Kingsley Holgate.
Expedition team leader Ross Holgate added that as part of their humanitarian efforts to assist communities suffering from the loss of income and jobs caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, they also undertook a challenging but inspirational 80-day, 16,000km expedition called Mzansi Edge last September.
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During the expedition they were assisted by Solly Temba, Kruger National Park community liaison and MJ du Preez from Hlokomela, they delivered 1 800 Do More nutritional porridge packs, along with hundreds of bars of sanitizing soap and colourful ‘shweshwe’ cloth facemasks (donated by the community sewing teams from the foundation’s partners at Goodbye Malaria) to 21 ECD centres and creches in the Acornhoek area – the equivalent of 18000 meals for the children in their care.
South African mountaineer Sibusiso Vilane, the first African to successfully summit Mt Everest, was also part of the expedition team for this humanitarian work.
