Food Parcels for Child-Headed Households

Location:	PORT SHEPSTONE, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Category:	Health
Published:	31 October 2007
Progress:	100% funded

Rating:	29 Ratings

The sincere wish of South Coast Hospice is to provide food parcels to the many terminally ill patients and their families that live in impoverished and deeply rural areas within the UGU District of KwaZulu-Natal, the area that we serve. The month of December is always especially difficult for these families and our greatest wish would be to provide them with some basic food items. Included in our programmes are children that are affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. Further, many of the households are child-headed. These children are not only battling with severe living conditions, i.e. no electricity and water, and extreme hunger, but bear the emotional and financial responsibility of looking after younger siblings. These children, who may be as young as ten, may even be the primary caregiver to a terminally ill patient. We would love to offer them some little joy, this being in the form of food parcels, which are always very gladly accepted and appreciated. Light up your life today by donating to this project and know that you are making some child SMILE.

by Fiona M., created on 15 January 2008 at 11:40 AM

HELLO EVERYBODY ! Please take the time to read further…

We are now well and truly into the New Year 2008 and I, on behalf of South Coast Hospice, wish all the people of betterplace success and happiness in the year ahead; let us hope that we can work together and achieve our goal of making this world a better place.

A very big thank you to three organisations who have kindly sponsored SCH ’s project “Food parcels for child-headed households”, namely:
• Plazes AG
• art matters GmbH
• change matters

Thanks must also once again go to our supporters – your donations will allow us to distribute food parcels to those in real need. Please bear in mind that this is an on-going project – the lack of resources available to children who are heading households, and other terminally ill patients and their families, is a constant problem and the demand for food parcels remains high. To those of you who are unfamiliar with what the food parcel comprises of, here is a list of basic foodstuffs that is normally provided:

Soya Mince Imana Mutton
Tea bags
Maize Meal (‘pap’ – similar to a porridge; this is our staple food)
Tinned Fish
Peanut Butter
Baked Beans
Ellis Brown c/creamer
Holsum (cooking lard)
Samp (our next most basic/staple food item, cooked and eaten with beans)
Sugar Beans red speckled
Morvite regular (a nutritious ‘cereal’ type foodstuff)
Morvite banana
Salt
Rice Biryani

We cannot of course provide any perishables such as fruit, dairy, etc. as electricity and/or refrigeration is not generally available.

Please visit the project site if you have not done so recently – there is a selection of photo images to view of which I am sure will provide a real insight into the work that we are doing and how your support will assist.

Thank you for your interest in this project – LET ’S RUN WITH IT !!!!

Yours sincerely
Fiona Mennell
South Coast Hospice