Organisations establish task team for distribution of food and essential items
21 April 2020
The civil rights organisationAfriForum and the family farming network Saai today announced the establishment of a task team to, in cooperation with Solidarity Helping Hand’s Joseph’s Silos project, collect and distribute food and essential items such as hand sanitiser and face masks. These food products and items will be distributed to needy individuals, families and institutions such as, among others, children’s homes, old-age homes and clinics in communities across the country. The initiative will also serve to counter and prevent unrest and looting in communities.
AfriForum will be responsible for managing distribution at grass-roots level from the Joseph’s Silos in cooperation with Saai to ensure that the items being packed and prepared by Helping Hand reach those in need as soon as possible.
Various points across the country where people in need can receive food have already been identified, as well as where people can drop off food to support this project. “It is however difficult for people like farmers who live far from these silos to drop off donations. Those people who are in need of these donations also don’t necessarily have the ability to get to the Joseph’s Silos. That is why AfriForum and Saai decided to get involved to help alleviate the need,” says Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s Head of Community Safety.
Family farmers will drop off donations at the nearest Helping Hand Silos and AfriForum will be responsible for the micro distribution of the food and other items to people in need.