FOOD 4 AFRICA

General information

We are currrently feeding in excess of 13,800 children and our aim is to secure continuous funding through donations and sale of various products made at the self-help centres. Over the next 3 months it is our intention to distribute 200 tons of food and we would require $500 000.00 and increase this to 400 tons within 6 months. Initially, this would enable us to feed 260 000 children, increasing to 520 000 children.

Based on the 2003 figure, this would only represent less than 10% of the children in need, but as the HIV / AIDS impact on our country grows, so will the number of starving children. SA statistics reported and increase of 57% in deaths from 1997 to 2002. Over 5 million people in SA are infected with the HIV virus, and nationally, more than 600 people die from the disease, every day.

The feeding project will not stop there. As more funds become available, so we will increase our coverage throughout South Africa and Southern Africa.