Township Stories and Realities - Community Impact

 

62 holiday food parcels were delivered this week—two more than the 60 households we set out to reach when we first flagged this drive.

Getting there took eight volunteers packing over two evenings, a discount from a supplier who's worked with us since the drive started, and one very full bakkie doing three separate delivery runs. 

Every parcel is logged against a household on our list, not handed out at random, because the families receiving them are trusting us to actually reach the people who need it most this fortnight. 

The holiday club itself served 620 meals this week — lower than a normal school-term week, which makes sense, but not by nearly as much as it would have without the club running.

Want to see how a parcel gets from our storeroom to someone's kitchen table? Message us—we'll walk you through it.

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Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.

 

Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. 

Tshepo marks it the same way he does every Tuesday: in a borrowed bakkie at 5am.

He drives to the fresh produce market and collects what traders can't sell. 

Carrots with a bend in them. 

Spinach a day past looking pretty.

 Tomatoes too soft for the shelf but perfect for a stew. 

By 8am it's in Mama Dikeledi's pots.

 Food that was headed for the bin ends up on a child's plate instead. 

The only thing that slows Tshepo down is fuel.

R50 covers a week of Tuesday market runs—link Below. 

If you run a shop, stall, or garden with surplus produce, message us and we'll come fetch it.

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Township Stories and Realities - The Reading Corner

 

The reading corner opened this weekend, and Nonhlanhla was the first to sit down in it.

It's a small space—two shelves, a rug, a stack of books in three languages—but it's the whole point of the week's work: a bicycle collection round, a Saturday spent sorting pages, a shelf sponsored by someone who never met Nonhlanhla but funded her corner anyway. 

Zanele read the first story aloud. 

Nonhlanhla picked the second book herself and read it quietly to two younger kids at her elbow.

Start next week with us—sponsor a shelf, donate a book, or simply share this post. 

Every bit keeps the corner growing.

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