We Don't Buy Food. Retailers Donate It. We Keep It Moving.
Every organisation that feeds people has to answer one question. Where does the money go?
At most of them it goes to food. Here it doesn't. Our food is donated, free, by retailers across KwaZulu-Natal who would otherwise throw it away. What you give pays for the diesel, the vehicles, the electricity and the people who move that food to local partners, to 3 creches, and to families who cannot get to either.
The food is free. Moving it is not.
This is exactly how it works.
From Surplus to Supper.
We intercept it.
They give the food freely. They benefit from tax certificates, less waste to dispose of, and real impact in the communities they trade in. We benefit from a supply chain that costs us R0 in stock.
Including the Distribution Centre and Freshmark
7 locations on the north coast
Surplus and near-date stock
Verulam. Fresh produce
National food redistribution networkEvery weekday our vehicles leave 1 Hospital Hill Road in Tongaat while it is still dark.
Vehicles run the north coast route, stop by stop, picking up what each retailer has set aside.
Everything comes back to the base in Tongaat, where volunteers sort by partner, by type, and by what will not keep.
It goes out again the same day, to partner kitchens or straight into direct feeding.
Each partner cooks and serves their own street. Families eat.
Nobody Appointed Any of Them.
Wiseman is a retired man in Hambanathi with a bakkie. He started by helping with transport in 2019. By 2023 he had taken over the whole organisation, and today families in Hambanathi get a food parcel because of him.
Pastor Bobby has run Seeds and Loaves of Bread in Tenance Manor, Phoenix for 23 years. On a Wednesday he feeds about 150 adults and 60 children, and he feeds children in the community every other day of the week. On weekends he drives for us.
There are others. A pastor who fed people out of his own pocket for 3 years before he asked anyone for help. A school teacher who turned her spare house into a homework centre. None of them was appointed. None was recruited. They started, and then they asked us for food. We supply. They serve.
Partners operate across Tongaat, Cottonlands, Inanda, Verulam, Hambanathi, Ntumzuma, Lloyd Melville, Shakaskraal, Shakaville, Phoenix, Buffelsdraai, Buffelsdale, Hazelmere, Gwala's Farm, Burbreeze and Durban.
In Our Community. 6 Days A Week.
Adel makes the soup on the base every morning. By lunchtime more than 150 people are fed in our community. Some have homes. Some do not. Some walked. All of them are welcome.
This is the oldest feeding programme we run, and the most personal. The same faces come back. The missionaries know their names.
Not Everyone Can Come to a Kitchen.
3
Creches
A child who eats can learn. Our 3 creches provide daily meals, a safe room and early education for children whose families cannot pay for private childcare.
Evalina started hers in Inanda with 2 children. She has 15 now, 5 days a week, and she feeds 20 adults in the community on top of that.
12
Households
Some are elderly. Some are housebound. We deliver to 12 households daily, with fresh and dry supplies restocked every 2 weeks to a month.
It is quiet work and it sits outside the spotlight. It has been running for years.
When the Community Needs Someone Who Has Not Left.
2021
Covid and the KZN riots destroyed many of our food sources. We kept serving.
2022
400mm of rain buried communities. We kept serving.
2024
The Tongaat tornado. 250 hot meals a day, plus household goods, delivered across the affected areas.
We do not fundraise first and serve later. We serve, then we account for it. The network is built to take a hit.
Real Costs. Real Lines. Real Receipts.
That is roughly R83,500 a month to keep the whole operation running, about $4,175 at R20 to the dollar. Electricity is the biggest line on it, and not one cent of that is food.
$25 a month supports a missionary. $50 covers a partner kitchen's monthly supplies. No creative accounting. No cost-per-meal maths that dissolves when you look at it.
Where your giving goes
Per meal moved
$0.14
The Model Works Because People Keep Showing Up.
Give monthly
Fund the vehicles, the diesel and the team that move the food. A standing commitment, because hunger is not a one-off.
Join the Monthly PartnersPartner as a company
B-BBEE scorecard points, Section 18A certificates and employee volunteer days.
Corporate partnershipsPartner as a church
Send a team to work at the mission, or run a food drive at your own church.
Church partnershipsGive your time
A day, a weekend, or full time. Every department needs hands, from the vehicles to the kitchens.
Join our teamSend goods
Diesel, vehicles, equipment, services. Or run a food drive where you are.
In-kind donationsTrust IT 2049/2000 · NPO 019-028 · PBO 930020955
