Following the recent civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng that left many communities without access to basic staple food items, several agricultural organisations have joined forces to donate tons of food items to those in need.
According to Kathy Hurly, programme manager at the KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union (Kwanalu), 4t of basic staple food items had so far been donated and would be distributed to a community of 400 people in the Oribi Flats area, as well as another 400 residents in the Creighton community.
In addition, Senwes has made an additional donation of almost 33t of 10kg bags of maize meal, which will be distributed to areas in need, from the Agri Value Chain Food Umbrella programme that was set up for exactly this type of humanitarian disaster, she said.
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