Stop Hunger Now hosts mass meal packing for Mandela Day
SANDTON - Stop Hunger Now hosted a mass meal packing initiative for Mandela Day at the Sandton Convention Centre.
The theme this year was Million Meal Challenge, and volunteers and companies’ staff took part.
“It makes my heart warm being a part of this initiative,” said Banathi Lukuleni, a pupil of Parktown High School for Girls.
Lukuleni and her peers signed up as volunteers for Stop Hunger Now and assisted the participants who were packing food into boxes for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Included in the packaged meals were rice, soya beans and vegetables.
“All these boxes will be taken to deprived schools and given to the pupils to take home,” added Schaedenet Fonseca, Stop Hunger Now volunteer and pupil of Parktown High School for Girls.
Some of the companies that had their teams take part in the initiative were Fibreco, Saaicom Voice Services, Nedbank and Standard Bank.
Last year, Stop Hunger Now packed 740 000 meals and this year the goal was to pack one million meals.
With the goal this year, 5 000 children can receive a healthy nutritious meal five times a week for one year.
Watch this video of participants packing food boxes for the Stop Hunger Now Mandela Day Million Meal Challenge:
