Kit Kat makes Africa Month special for Kliptown community

600 food hampers and pap and vleis handed out

May 31, 2017

Dane Job 1 minute read

Jane Kgashane holding a ticket to receive food hamper.

As part of the Kit Kat Cash and Carry Group’s annual social responsibility programme, the company distributed 600 food hampers to disadvantaged people in the greater Kliptown Soweto area on May 25.

In a welcome twist, this year’s event took place on Africa Day. A ticket system was used in order to keep control of who needed to get or who had already received a hamper.

Community members were also treated to a pap and vleis lunch, which they received with the hampers.

Kit Kat’s programme goes a long way in the greater Gauteng area, having feeding schemes in various townships, helping schools and less fortunate people with various requests.

The group’s chairman, Abdul Gani, started his relationship with the community in 2009 as he gave approximately R400 000 to hundreds of members of different stokvels after they had lost their money when the previous company, Orient Cash and Carry closed down.

Gani did this in order to start with a clean slate with the community as his predecessor left the community poorer.

According to Gani, the aim of the programme is to ensure that providing meals and hampers to the community will give them the urge to pursue their own dreams and aspirations as well as looking forward to a better tomorrow.

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