Thank you to Fruit & Veg City for a wonderful Care2Carry campaign.  Kudo’s to everyone who happily bought bags.  For every bag sold, Fruit & Veg City donated two rand to Feedback.  All the bags have now been sold!

Since July 18 reusable shopping bags designed by pupils from Luzuko Primary School in Gugulethu have been sold in Fruit & Veg City stores nationwide.

Ntomby Mvelase, Feedback's Durban Coordinator with learners from Ekuthuleni Combined School

Learners at Danville Girls High School (Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa) took their participation in Feedback's Bread Buddy Programme to new heights for Christmas. 

Rather than make sandwiches for one of their recipient schools, they threw a wonderful Christmas party for Ekuthuleni Combined School in Kwa Mashu. 

This is community owned school with limited funds and resources.  80% of the parents and care givers to the learners are unemployed.  Many of the learners are orphaned due to HIV/Aids and some live in child headed households.   So to have a treat of a personally wrapped Christmas hamper was a welcome respite! 

Learners at Ekuthuleni Combined School in KwaMashu KZN celebrate the kindness of strangers

On Friday 24th October 2008, Unilever staff dedicated themselves to a sandwich making activity; these kind folk buttered and jammed 81 loaves of bread to prepare some nutritious sandwiches for children in need.  It was an amazing exercise for the Unilever staff and they have expressed an intererest in continuing with this volunteer activity.

A resolution adopted by Feedback's Board of Directors to restructure Feedback as part of a network of community foodbanks was the start of a process to ultimately bring more food to many many more vulnerable communities in South Africa.

The planned network of community foodbanks will be community assets funded and supported by food donations and finances from retailers, manufacturers, corporations and community resources.