On 31 May 2012 National Soup Day was celebrated across the country. Cape Town based NGO Breadline Africa fed 1004 children at the Hillwood Primary School in Lavender Hill.Breadline Africa's Project Coordinator, Edna Titus says that lots of learners in the outer Cape Town areas arrive at school hungry. "Just a cup of soup and a slice of bread can make a big difference," says Titus.
“Lots of learners in the outer Cape Town areas arrive at school hungry. Hungry children cannot learn. Just a cup of soup and a slice of bread can make a big difference,,” projects officer for Breadline Africa, Edna Titus says.
As winter settles across the country, the homeless and disadvantaged will be the first to feel the cold. According to a General Household survey conducted in 2009 by the Medical Research Council, approximately 11-million South Africans do not know where their next meal will come from and one in every five children under the age of nine will suffer from stunted growth as a result of malnutrition.
The core focus of Breadline Africa is to provide grassroots community organizations, who survive on limited budgets, with funding to continue their vital work. The NGO’s Spread the Bread Campaign, which forms part of the Mandela Day Celebrations, will run a mobile food kitchen in poverty-stricken areas to assist with feeding children during the chilly winter months.
This week on Voice of the Cape's Breakfast show I chatted to Edna Titus about National Soup Day on the eve of the event...
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