Help Morris Isaacson Centre for Music by to collect non perishable food for their Saturday's feeding scheme for MICM students.

Help Morris Isaacson Centre for Music by to collect non perishable food for their Saturday's feeding scheme for MICM students.

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Once a week all of the children learning at the Centre, gather for group classes. It is on this day that we provide them with a meal. For many of our children, it is the only hot meal they will receive during the course of a week. Our children range in age from 4 to 19 years and come from the community that surrounds the Centre (Central Western Jabavu). Many of the children’s parents are unemployed or survive on “peace work”. There are currently 130 children at the Centre. The focus is to provide children with a reasonably priced meal that is healthy. The menus that we usually use are: · Cheese, tomato, lettuce sandwich on brown bread, a piece of fruit and juice · Peanut butter & jam sandwich and a piece of fruit and juice · Hot dog, a piece of fruit and juice · Mince, lentils and bean stew served with brown rice, a piece of fruit and juice The meal is served to them on a Saturday between 12pm – 1pm. The Centre is open every weekend of the year except over December and the Easter weekend. Currently we are able to feed 130 children for 49 weekends of the year for an average of R20 per a child. Meals are handed out according to our registers and children are ticked off the list to ensure that we have some control about where the food is going. Only children who participate in lessons at the Centre are eligible to receive food. For many, this is enough of an incentive to stay at the Centre and off the streets. Through the music programme, children receive a lot of positive feedback and our teachers and Director of Music keep an eye on their performance during their individual weekly lessons as well as the group lessons on a Saturday.