Helping hands
The Do More Foundation committed to providing one million hot Rainbow chicken meals to South Africa’s most vulnerable children and communities from 13 July until Mandela Day today. Every R1 donated at domore.org.za provided a meal.
Nonprofit organisation Youth Social Care, supported by the SA Jewish Board of Deputies and Angel Network, is to spend Mandela Day in Alexandra, providing soup, bread and blankets to needy residents.
Youth Social Care has been providing the most vulnerable in townships with food parcels during the Covid-19 crisis. The organisation is youth-driven and voluntary.
The SA Harvest and Chefs with Compassion organisations will be “rising to Madiba’s call through the collective action of hundreds of chefs who are doing what they love to do as part of the #67000litres for Mandela Day cook-a-thon”.
Their joint statement read: “In 10 cities – Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban, Bloemfontein, Mokopane, Rustenburg, Vereeniging, Port Elizabeth and Nelspruit – a hearty, nutritious soup will be cooked with compassion and care by chefs from restaurants, hotels, cooking schools and catering operations to provide meals for 268 000 people.”
They are calling on South Africans to help Chefs with Compassion continue to provide meals to poverty-stricken communities by donating R10 per meal at chefswithcompassion.org.za
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital (NMCH) is running a campaign called #ServeLikeMadiba.
“The world needs all of us, especially at this time, to give of ourselves, particularly to those in vulnerable positions, and that includes our children,” said NMCH chief executive Dr Mandisa Maholwana.
“We are asking the public to make the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital a charity of their choice.
“To inspire the public to #ServeLikeMadiba we have compiled a wish list ... which includes donating as little as R20 through our SMS line 40301 by texting the word ‘Gift’,” while donations of toiletries and pyjamas would also be welcomed.
“There is also an online run from the Apartheid Museum to Madiba’s home in Vilakazi Street, Soweto,” said Maholwana.
More details can be found at nelsonmandelachildrenshospital.org