The MEC for Social Development Mr. Alvin Botes will be launching the Platfontein Soup Kitchen and Profiling of the Safe Park. As a Department we have heeded the call to action in addressing food insecurity and poverty and hence the Department of Social Development developed a strategy to address food insecurity within the province through the establishment and funding of soup kitchens.
As a Department we fund based on our food security Rural/Urban Funding Model. Urban Soup Kitchens will be strengthened with R 67 364 and Rural Soup Kitchens will be strengthened with R 87 361 in this financial year. We realised that rural communities struggle more than urban communities to feed the poor and vulnerable; they spend more on food, transport and they don’t have as many choices.
Details of the event:
Date: 1st November 2011
Time: 14:00
Venue: Platfontein
Currently the department has established and funded the following initiatives within the Platfontein Community:
- soup Kitchen
- two Isibindi Programs one for each tribe.
This will be a three day engagement session, discussing a range of issues from social, religious and other matters of importance in our country and the church.
Please feel free to call Media Liaison Officer in the office of the MEC Social Development, Tebogo Mokae for any further information and clarity you might require, at 082 719 1142.
