Building a Working Training Kitchen in South Africa to offer skills training to the unemployed
Soli Deo Gloria Care Centre (Soli) in Lydenburg, South Africa is currently a Non-Profit Charity who cares for the destitute people of Lydenburg. Soli has +/- 170 people of various ages, sex, race and religion living with them. These people have found themselves homeless due to a range of circumstances and would be out on the street if it were not for Soli community that provides them with shelter, meals and supports their efforts to be employed. www.solideogloriacarecentre.org
Integration of Soli into a Meals on Wheels kitchen that will serves the basic needs of the poorest of the poor, the vulnerable, the disabled and the elderly and children in society. The “Cooked Meal” forms the basis of the basket of services that MOWCS renders to alleviate the basic needs of the poorest of the poor, the vulnerable, the disabled and the elderly and children in society.
Meals on Wheels was established in 1964 and have more than 700 sites around South Africa. The purpose at that time was to provide meals to the elderly in the community. The programme has since then evolved into a National programme targeting the poorest of the poor and vulnerable person in South Africa. https://mow.org.za/
Soli currently receives food donations from mainly the public of Lydenburg. The community is not an affluent community and donations are irregular and scarce.
Soli has an agreement with some local supermarkets to buy food at discounted prices and from time to time they receive donations from these supermarkets.
Lydenburg is situated in a farming community and the farmers do donate fruit and vegetables when they have abundance.
Soli does not have any resources to generate their own funds at the moment.
In order to be ready to operate, we need to better equip Soli with an improved kitchen and a delivery vehicle. We are seeking sponsors for these 2 items:
Soli needs a new kitchen
Soli Deo Gloria has a kitchen but it is hardly functional and very unpractical.
With the knowledge of MOW and a professional kitchen supplier, Swiss4Afrika aims to renovate the kitchen into a modern functional kitchen that can cater for a greater amount of people.
The kitchen: https://youtu.be/fQ4iMN3fEfY Youtube : Soli new kitchen project
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