A Cape Flats organisation has celebrated its millionth person fed through their feeding scheme since lockdown started in 2020.
On Saturday, the Wynberg-based feeding scheme, Invisible Hands, cooked 105 one hundred litre pots of food and distributed it to various areas on the Flats.
Invisible Hands was started seven years ago by brothers Faieck Samodien and Joe Spaza with just 80 cents in the kitty.
Today, they are a registered NPC and their main objective is feeding poor communities.
“We saw so many hungry children and decided that if we could make a difference in one child’s life by feeding them, then we would have achieved our objective,” says Faieck.
“The funding of this was a very challenging process, but we approached family, friends, colleagues, business partners and clients and received a very positive response.
“We started by contributing to various organisations by supplying them with ingredients for them to make food at their institutions.
“Our aim was to supply one organisation per day and did about six different organisations, ranging from feeding schemes to schools.
“We then started making our own food and acquired our own pots and gas burners.
“Through this, we started going to various towns and cooked there for the day.
He says when the Covid-19 pandemic started, they had to change their operations and have a base to cook from.
“We then went on a drive to buy more pots and burners, and grew from seven pots to our current total of 63 pots (per day).”
The team of 13 cooked a noodle broth on Saturday, and took it out to areas stretching from Wynberg to Muizenberg, Mitchells Plain, Delft, Hanover Park, Atlantis, Paarl, Worcester, Grabouw and many more.
If you are able to assist Invisible Hands in any way, contact them via email [email protected] or visit their Facebook page.
You can also call Joe Spaza on 082 338 8227, Faieck Samodien on 082 922 0145 and Ridwan Amlay on 082 940 8880.