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Working together to end hunger and poverty

Working together to end hunger and poverty

Date: 2021-06-14

Sibaya Community Trust partners with Food for Life to feed 12,000 underprivileged a day with new kitchen.

Sibaya Community Trust once again proves that if we are to see our country thrive then we must work together to empower and support community ­based organisations to fulfill their mandate of uplifting the everyday ordinary man.


This was so profoundly expressed when the Sibaya Community Trust prioritised the need to provide sustainable solutions to end hunger and poverty. Working together with Food for Life in Newlands, the trust committed towards the building of a fully functional and operational kitchen. This project will now have the capacity to produce 12 000 plates of food which will be distributed to the many vulnerable, indigent families and reach out to many surrounding regions.


"We are proud and humbled to have spent over R205 Million on projects," said Vivian Reddy, the Chairman of Sibaya Community Trust.


He added that their spend included the building of additional classrooms and ablution facilities in many schools in KZN, a Skills Centre in KwaDukuza, the KwaMashu Child and Family Welfare, Sahara Shelter for Abused Women in Phoenix, a digital space for youth in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, the MADI program on which over R14 million alone was spent to help youth attain excellent pass rates in science and maths, this included upgrade of classrooms, digital study facilities, bursaries and much more.


"We are most certainly delighted to partner with Food for Life, an organization which was established in 1974 and developed into a phenomenal global food relief program with over 240 kitchens in 60 countries" he added.

Food for Life is one of the largest, registered, non-profit, vegetarian food relief organisations in the world and is non-political, non-sectarian and a non-discriminating organisation.

Food for Life SA serves more than a million plates of cooked vegetarian meals on a daily basis with branches in various parts of KZN.

The property was donated by the Mungroo family and Sibaya Community Trust invested RS00,000 to help complete the much need project.

This kitchen is strategically positioned to provide much service to the Newlands, KwaMashu and greater Durban areas.

The beneficiaries of freshly cooked meals will include impoverished communities, school children in need, challenged individuals and the elderly said Reddy.