Tinus Lindeque
Co-founder and Pastor
Co-founder, 1995
Our Team
Somebody Has to Drive.
Somebody has to fix the bakkie when it breaks on the way back from Stanger. Somebody has to be at the loading bay at first light, sort what comes off, pack the crates, cook the soup, open the gate.
That is what this team is. Not a staff directory. A list of the people who do those jobs, every weekday, on the same piece of land in Tongaat.
Leadership
31 Years, and the People Who Carried It.
Tinus and Meisie started this in 1995. In 2015 Tinus handed the leadership to Hein van der Merwe during his health challenges, and Hein grew it and handed it back to Tinus in 2017. Brenda came into the mission in 2021.
Meisie Lindeque
Co-founder
Co-founder, 1995 to 2018
Brenda Lindeque
Leadership and admin
Joined 2021
The team, by department
Drivers. Mechanics. Cooks. Every Weekday.
Beyond this list, every one of our community partners is run by local people in their own neighbourhoods, and volunteers move through the mission across departments week to week.
Operations and maintenance
Dewald
Supervisor and mechanic
Jerome
Driver, mechanic, collections
Ricardo
Driver, general maintenance, collections
Louis
Collections, tool store supervisor, handyman, grounds
Collections and distribution
Kribz
Collections, sorting and distribution, supervisor, guest house host
Themba
Driver, collections
Dean
Collections, general work
Dumi
Collections, general work, gardens
Gavin
Sorting and distribution of collections
Ernst
Collections, general work
Goodson
Collections, general work
Kitchen
Odette
Cooking, gardens and general work
Trish
Cooking, sorting, weekend supervisor
Riana
Cooking, sorting, general work
Adel
Cooks the soup for the daily gate feeding
The community part
Some Came for a Week. Some Never Left.
Dewald arrived in 2016 with his life not working. Alcohol, drugs, decisions he could not undo on his own. He supervises this operation now, and he met his wife Odette here, and they were married on this property.
People arrive as day volunteers and stay as missionaries. Some leave for Mozambique or Venda to start something of their own, and they come back to visit. It is not a staff structure so much as a family that happens to run a food rescue network.
The work explains the people
If that is the kind of team you would want to stand next to.
Food rescued from 5 retailers before it goes into a bin. Food going out every weekday. More than 150 people fed in our community. No rand spent on the food itself.
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