FoodForward SA

We want to express our deep gratitude and appreciation to everyone who made FoodForward SA’s Mandela Day Packing Event 2024 a success.

Mandela Day is around the corner, and at FoodForward SA, we’re gearing up for an unforgettable food-packing event!

What initially started as an idea in 2000 (as FeedBack Food Redistribution) to recover edible excess food from Cape Town’s film industry, morphed to become a national reality in 2009 (as FoodBank SA).

As the 16 days of activism for women and children comes to an end, there is no doubt that much more needs to be done to protect women and children from serial abusers.

bp Southern Africa has partnered with SA Harvest in a long-term partnership that will deliver 55 million meals and contribute towards reducing methane emissions from landfills.

While 1994 represented a significant turning point in South Africa’s political history, economic justice was not realised.

To address youth unemployment, while steadily removing the huge barrier to entry for underprivileged youth, FoodForward SA, with the support of Woolworths and the Industrial Development Corporation.

The gross inequality across the length and breadth of South Africa is palpable, disturbing, and not sustainable for long term growth, national security, and social cohesion.

The torrential rains in KwaZulu-Natal over the past 2 weeks saw nearly 500 people lose their lives, more than 13 000 homes destroyed by the raging floods, and billions of Rands in damage to infrastructure.

South Africa has returned to a national state of disaster, this time in response to the devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal.

More than one third of all the food produced in South Africa ends up in landfills – although most of this food is still in an edible and nutritious condition.

There are over 5 million orphaned children in South Africa with 12,000 being added every month, including thousands of child-headed households.

It is often said that food is the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. While this may be true, depending on your social context, consider how the lack of food could impact a person, a family, a community, and a nation

FOOD JUSTICE MUST BE REALISED FOR PEOPLE TO BE TRULY FREE.

Women account for two-thirds of the total job losses in South Africa, between February and April this year. According to the Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey published by the National Income Dynamic Study (NIDS-CRAM), 2 million women were left unemployed.

South Africans are truly remarkable and unique. In spite of our very brutal past and the legacy we still live with, along with our very different cultures and sub-cultures that tend to divide us, we also have much in common.

Thank you, to all our donors and partners. It is through your support that we were able to achieve our goals in what was a milestone year!

If the United Nations’ estimates are correct, SA's rural population will decline to 20% of the population by 2050. At the moment, the UN’s Population Division estimates SA’s rural population at just over 33% or a third of the country’s population.

A lady recently shared her story, on radio, of how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected her family. Two years ago, she and her husband agreed that she would leave her job to look after their two children while he would continue to work.

SURPLUS FOOD BOOSTS IMPACT OF OVC CENTRES.

Pakama, Edgar and Walliya have little in common. They have never enjoyed a meal at the same table, yet their lives are interwoven. Responsibility glues them together.

A pilot initiative between FoodForward SA, Feed the Nation Foundation and the WC Department of Health was launched on Friday, 29 Jan, which will identify and expedite food support to patients with compromised immunity who have lost their ability to earn.

Only one thing is certain - these are uncertain times. In the space of only 11 months, we all find ourselves living in a very different world.

“The social impact of the collective efforts within the non-profit sector offers another pathway to bring about better education and nutrition outcomes in under-served communities,” says FoodForward SA MD, Andy Du Plessis.

Mobile Rural Depots Increase FoodForward SA’s Eastern Cape Footprint

In October 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that “corruption has cost South Africa as much as R1 trillion”. This is a staggering amount of taxpayers’ money that was wasted, at a time when it is most needed.

Three months after launching in the Western Cape, FoodForward SA (FFSA) is adjusting the scope of its Food Parcel Programme and expanding it nationally, to reach even more vulnerable families left destitute because of the pandemic.

PEOPLE WITH NOTHING, HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE. Inequality, poverty and unemployment provide fertile ground for looting and lawlessness