More than 200 impoverished elderly and other vulnerable residents of Newlands were overjoyed when City of Johannesburg’s officials from the Health and Social Development Department provided food hampers on 3 July.
The Gift of Hope organisation provided the hampers to the City for distribution among the poor as part of their celebration of the month of Ramadan.
Assessments were conducted to identify families struggling to put food on the table.
During the handover at the Danie van Zyl Recreation Centre, Simon Motsusi from the department’s Food Resilience Unit, said Executive Mayor Parks Tau wanted to ensure that no one in Johannesburg went to bed hungry and that families were able to put food on the table.
“As the City’s Health and Social Development Department, we are tasked with the responsibility to respond to social issues that members of the community are encountering. Not everyone is getting a food parcel, only those who need them,” he said.
In working with Gift of Hope, the City’s main objective is to make sure people receive the nutrients they need. They do this through the Food Resilience Unit, which hands out vegetables and food hampers to those in dire need in Ward 82 every Wednesday .
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