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Feeding the Hungry Children
What is the Children's Feeding Trust?
The purpose of the Children's Feeding Trust is to support and monitor a variety of charities who are conducting feeding schemes for children in the Nelson Mandela Metropole and its surrounding areas.
The Trust receives applications from various organisations for support. These applications are vetted and verified, and if approved, funds are transferred to that beneficiary on a quarterly basis. Trustees and volunteers visit the beneficiaries on a regular basis to ensure that the funds transferred are used effectively in feeding children.
Currently we are providing the funds and monitoring the feeding of about 4 000 children in the Port Elizabeth region. The region served by the Trust includes the Nelson Mandela Metropole and outlying towns from Humansdorp to Kenton on Sea. The Trust is managed by a volunteer Board of Trustees and three paid staff from its offices in the Walmer Town Hall, Port Elizabeth. The Trust can call on a group of approximately 70 dedicated and valued volunteers.
The Trust is funded by investment income on its capital base built up since 1958. This income is nowhere near enough to relieve the plight of the hungry in the area and so the income is supplemented by income from:
- a Book Shop that sells donated second hand books, greeting cards and other items to the public
- An Annual Appeal to businesses and private individuals in Port Elizabeth
- An Annual Street Collection
- Collection tins at schools and businesses
- Various donations and legacies, both once off and regular.
How can you help us?
R1 daily provides a child with Tuberculosis with 4 slices of bread and peanut butter - R5 per week or R20 a month. The medication cannot be taken at the clinic on an empty tummy! Children in day care are luckier - breakfast and lunch cost R5.50 a day on which they thrive and learn. At a cost of R75 we can supply a basic food parcel for a month for an ill child living in an impoverished home.
The School Feeding Fund was established in 1958. From it's inception, the fund had an enthusiastic and devoted band of volunteers and thanks to their fund raising efforts, they were feeding 10 000 children within the first year.
The fund's family continued to grow and by 1995, 37 years after it's founding, they were feeding 47 000 children at 90 schools every day. The government has taken over the responsibility of feeding children at schools and The School Feeding Fund was wound up and its assets transferred to the newly formed entity registered as The Children's Feeding Trust.
Please support us. We can use almost any donation you would care to give. Please visit our Donations page.
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