- Welcome To
- Project Feed
- The Children
Project Feed the Children is a registered Non-Profit and Public Benefit Organisation run by permanent team members and volunteers from different backgrounds, with a common goal to care for, teach, and feed, previously disadvantaged children in the informal and rural settlements of Benoni, Gauteng and Margate KZN.
We are on a Level One B-BBEE procurement recognition level = 135%
ABOUT
The Vision, goal, and activities of Project Feed the Children regarding the care of orphaned and vulnerable children in our communities, is also in keeping with the vision of the National Action Plan for Orphans and Other Children. The National action plan defines orphaned and vulnerable children as follows: An orphan is defined as a child under the age of 18 years whose mother, father or both biological parents have died.
The South African Child Gauge report of August 2024 states that challenges have emerged since the Covid 19 pandemic which is stalling progress and threatening the development and survival of children. It is found that 1 in every 25 babies born in South Africa dies before their 5th birthday. It has also established that more than a third of children live in households, where their basic needs are not met and more than 1 in every 4 children under the age of 5, their development is stunted – meaning they are chronically malnourished and their physical growth and brain development is compromised.
“A vulnerable child is defined as any child under the age of 18 years whose survival, care, protection or development may be compromised due to a particular condition, situation or circumstance that prevents fulfilment of his or her rights.”
Over the past 20 years, we have established Community Centre’s within 3 settlements and at rural schools where we have fed, cared for and introduced ECD programs.
Most of these centre’s have become independent and are run by members of their respective communities.
Our pilot and founding campus continues to operate in Cloverdene, Benoni, with the intention of expanding operations in the south of rural KZN.
In the ECD program, our kitchens prepare and serve 2x nutritious hot meals per day, to ECD children including any street children. This equates to an average of 2 200 plates of food a month.
An average of 60 pensioners, widows and families also receive food parcels from the Cloverdene campus.
We continually ascertain the welfare needs of the community for clothes, blankets, and food parcels. We rely on donations to meet these needs.
The Cloverdene campus provides an ECD program and counselling to children, mothers, and young adults, within the settlement.
To date, employment has been created for 16 residents within the settlements as managers; cooks; maintenance; ECD teachers, and pastors. Pre-school teachers’ training is provided and paid for by us.
The campus is used for Sunday services, Sunday school, weddings, community meetings, as well as a training centre for empowerment and basic skills education for young parents.
The vegetable gardens are maintained by a community member, who assists the ECD classes to grow their own vegetables for their families.
In the community centre we have established, built, and planted the following:
-Brick and mortar building for community meetings, church, and Sunday school.
-Corrugated/steel prefabs for ECD classes and kitchens
-A fully operational book library within a shipping container.
-A toy library
-ECD Vegetable Gardens
-Empowerment classes for young adults
-Certificate training through Unisa, for ECD teachers
GOALS
objectives for 2019 through 2025
To continue with the counselling for abused and traumatized victims in Cloverdene.
To train up a second pastor to assist at Cloverdene.
To maintain the growth of the church and Sunday school within the Cloverdene settlement.
To train 4 new ECD teachers through Unisa’s ECD training programme
To maintain employment of the existing 11 people within the project, with the vision of creating more employment for teachers, cooks and pastors/counsellors through growth and expansion to other areas.
To Employ a further 6 people from within the settlement as ECD teachers and cooks.
To create additional educational and social excursions for the children, such as the Zoo’s; Planetarium; cave sites; other schools; and organisations that will be holding sponsorship days.
To maintain the feeding programme.
To maintain campuses, and the growth thereof, whilst there is a vision of planting more projects in other informal and rural settlements.
To maintain the food, blanket, and clothing parcel programme on a weekly and monthly basis for children and pensioners in need.
To maintain and refocus on the empowerment training programme in Cloverdene and Margate.
What We Need:
NON PERISHABLES
Tinned Baked Beans
Cooking Oil
Masala
Mielie Meal
Pasta
Tinned Pilchards
Rice
Salt
Samp
Soup Powder
Soya
Stock Cube
Sugar
Flour
FRESH VEGETABLES
Cabbage
Carrots
Green beans
Green pepper
Onions
Potatoes
Tomatoes
CLEANING ITEMS
Dishwashing liquid
Disinfectant
Fly Catcher
Handy Andy
Jik
Pine Gel
Sanitizers
Masks
PPE Equipment
We will gladly accept any toys, clothes, blankets, shoes, books, school books and stationery for our ECD program and library.
To replace the existing Mazda B3000 LDV with a new LDV, with a canopy for collection of foods, blankets and clothing, and material for campus maintenance.
For Margate we require the following:
3-Plate Gas Cooker
2 x 25L Pots
1 x 10L Pot
2 x 20kg Gas Bottles
LP Gas
Cooking utensils and implements
PPE Equipment
LDV
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Contact us
Gauteng Project
Address: N12 Highway Park Informal Settlement
Putfontein Road, Cloverdene, Benoni, Gauteng 1501
Phone: 071 307 9109 or 076 742 7109
E Mail: p.f.t.c.benoni@gmail.com
KZN Project
Address: 49 Queen Street, Manaba Beach, Margate, KZN 4276
Phone: 082 446 0546 or 071 534 3941
E Mail: p.f.t.c.benoni@gmail.com
Help us to help them!
James 1:27
True spirituality that is pure in the eyes of our Father God is to make a difference in the lives of the orphans, and widows in their troubles, and to refuse to be corrupted by the world’s values.