A huge thanks to Janice Pearlman and all the people who assisted in the buying and wrapping of Christmas presents for all our kiddies… What a fun day was spent delivering presents and enjoying the parties for the festive season… The kiddies had such fun and each child was given a wrapped present with their names on it… they were thrilled and felt so happy and special !!! THAT’s what it’s all about !! FEED SA would like to wish all the people who have sponsored and donated during the year a VERY HAPPY, FANTASTIC NEW YEAR and a MERRY CHRISTMAS…. we look forward to feeding MORE bodies, minds and souls in the new year x x x
FEED SA and BOABAB Teachers went to visit all our crèches and were thrilled to see the wonderful, huge and amazing impact our Teacher Training is having on the Teachers, the crèches AND the children.
Our Teachers/Caregivers are so passionate about their training and all that they have learnt, as well as accomplished.
Though the crèches are small (most of them) – these incredible ladies have managed to arrange each space set out for the kiddies, from block and building corner, to books, to arts and crafts, dress up/fantasy play and interest tables!
The children are having much more fun and seem to be adjusting beautifully to their new environments in the crèches!
HUGE THANKS to Andy Berzon and all the Teachers from BOABAB for having such a brilliant impact on the FEED SA crèches… Here’s to continuing feeding BODIES, MINDS and SOULS!
FEED SA has finally, with the wonderful and generous sponsorship of Blue Strata, and the brilliant building work of Plumbers On Call , completed the building and renovations of Area Ganeng Pre School in Alexandra Township…
What started off as a little mukuku (shack) – with no classroom space, with just some wooden work for protection, as well as netting etc, and buckets for potties and no kitchen area – has ended up with TWO amazing size classrooms, separating the kids into age appropriate groups – a whole area with 6 toilets and basins AND a bath – a little kitchen and an office, as well as an amazing outside area with jungle gyms and all fun play things….
This has been such an exciting and well worthy project and we are very proud to announce the completion of it!
We extend our grateful thanks to all the staff at Blue Strata and to Eddie, who helped with the painting of the wonderful, colourful and fun painting of the outside of the crèche.
We hope to build many more as we continue to feed bodies, minds and souls!
Below you can see some before and after pictures.
Thanks so much to Paul Koffler from Rand Plastics for his generous donation of plastic tables, chairs, bicycles, wheelbarrows and much much more. We had a GREAT day handing these toys out to some of our new schools in Soweto, and as usual, the excitement on these kids faces it just priceless!!! Thank you RAND PLASTICS!
SARLA (South Africa Rugby Legends Association) and their rugby legends come to visit and hand out blankets to the elderly and bed-ridden citizens of the Phutuditjaba Community centre in Alexandra Township, which is one of FEED SA’s beneficiaries. Thanks guys, and thank you Blue Label and Richmark. It was an AWESOME event and much gratitude to David Von Hoesslin, Joost Van Der Westhuizen , Riaan Erwee and Mac Masina who made the day so special by being there to hand over the blankets. They came at the PERFECT time for Winter, and were received with so much gratitude and joy!!
FEED SA was charity of choice for Big Brother Africa to take the kiddies and the inmates to a fun carnival day!! FEED SA is climbing up there, and continues to feed bodies, minds and souls DAILY !! Thank you for such a fun day BBA, our nunu’s loved it!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANDELA!! HUGE thanks to TeleEye, Phillip Smerkowvitz, Andy McGibbons, Cindy Alter, Stewart Irving from the amazing famous band ALTER IRVING… and all the guys from Guitar Excellence – Tyrone, Anthony, Ilia, Richard and Craig for the AWESOME concert for FEED SA and for the hand over of 10 BRAND new guitars to the Phutaditjaba Community Centre in Alex ! THANK YOU for the best time on Mandela Day .. you guys ROCKED !! LET THE MUSIC PLAY !!!! x x x
Thanks to KU TRADING who so kindly donated some warm beanies, scarves and socks to FEED SA.
We distributed these warm woolies to our beneficiaries right in time for the Winter season , and now we have made lots of kids “snug as bugs” for the Winter season.
Thanks again to KU trading for being so generous towards FEED SA year after year.
Gauteng Baobab Early Childhood Training Programme is an organization that has been established in order to provide accredited early childhood training for child minders and care givers in the communities. The facilitators are accredited assessors and are included on the EDTP SETA (Education, Training and Development Practices Sector Education and Training Authority) data base.
Many employed child-minders and care-givers in both Soweto and the Alexandra communities, want to establish best practice in the way that they teach children.
These teachers do not have the financial means or even the appropriate educational levels to go to professional colleges or Universities. BAOBAB will be providing this training to the Preschool teachers who are supported by FEED SA at a very minimal cost to the learners. All lectures, educational teaching material , stationery and emotional support will be provided for by BAOBAB. The weekly transporting of the learners to King David Linksfield will be sponsored by FEED SA .
At the end of the training course the learners will receive an NQF level 1 accreditation. The mission statement for BAOBAB is to empower care-givers and child-minders to advance their teaching skills, as foundation learning for all children and to foster commitment for future education and training.
BAOBAB and King David Linksfield (PPS) together with FEED SA are going to lead our teachers to a brighter educated future for our special South African children.
The Ronnie and Rhona Lubner Child and Youth Care Center at Phutaditjaba Community Centre.
On March 2nd, FEED SA’s Co-Executive Directors attended the opening of the Ronnie and Rhona Lubner Child and Youth Care Centre in the heat of Alexandra Township – one of South Africa’s most densely populated and impoverished areas.
The centre has been designed to accommodate 200 children aged between 2 and 6 in a formal ECD programme , and another 200 primary and high school participants in the formal after school ” Child and Youth Development “programme that compliments their formal schooling years.
Involvement and extra mural activities at the Centre include sports training (gymnasium and boxing), dancing, music and computer training.
After the launch, an official plaque was unveiled, where FEED SA, along with other huge organizations, was recognized as an official partner to the center.
FEED SA continues to supply Phutaditjaba Community Centre with monthly food parcels catering to Vulnerable Children and bed ridden citizens, as well as the organizing and arranging of sponsorship towards food parcels, sweets and presents for the centers year end Christmas parties. These parties cater to 3000 elderly citizens and 500 children!!
We are very proud and grateful to be recognized by, and a part of such a well respected, community orientated, generous and contributing organization such as Ma Afrika Tikkun and we wish them the BEST of luck, happiness, and joy with their new centre!
HERE’S TO EDUCATION – AND FULL TUMMIES!
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