Africa Food for Thought

Africa Food for Thought has been bringing food security to children across the West Rand of Johannesburg, South Africa since 2006. Our vision is to make sure that their children can focus on their studies and not need to worry about where their next meal is coming from. Although our promise is food, we also provide other support in aid of education throughout the year. We currently have five school feeding projects and fifty six creches receiving daily meals. We also provide food security to forty eight households caring for orphaned and vulnerable children. The households and creches are our main focus, with each household receiving a monthly food parcel for as long as their children are in school, and each creche child receiving two cooked meals and two snacks each day. Whilst we equip and supply the projects, it is the parents and community volunteers who run the project, do the cooking and serving. In this way, we encourage schools and communities to own the project, while we ...