#MandelaDay: Hearty meals spread Madiba love
The team had three separate intervals, at 10 volunteers a time to ready 1000 meals for the needy.
MANDELA Day was celebrated Covid-style on the Bluff to make a delicious meal in service of those who needed it most.
Chairperson of ward 66’s Vulnerable Groups and Gender Committe, Zoe Solomon, led a group of volunteers, under the strict rules and guidelines of Covid-19 regulations, in making 1 000 meals.
“Meat dishes were the biggest excitement on our menu, as we normally have vegetable dishes. We had meaty bones donated by Jolly’s Butchery in Overport and the Aids Foundation donated chicken, and we made a delicious chicken curry with meaty bones,” she said.
They had three separate intervals, at 10 volunteers a time, who chopped, diced, and peeled, while others dished out the food and the rest distributed the meals using their own cars.
“We moved like a well-oiled machine. We fed the people we usually do since the beginning of lockdown with our Bluff-based feeding scheme. We also extended to the Clairwood informal settlements to spread the love there as well.”
“When you arrive and people have meat, it just lifts their spirits and that is the spirit of Mandela Day, we spread the love that he had for all of us. May he rest in peace,” she added.
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