With a week of lockdown behind us, hundreds of hungry homeless mense have gone without a warm meal.
The local soup kitchens and food distribution points have been affected by the government's Disaster Management Act.
For some, there is the saving grace of the volunteer-run soup kitchen, Ladles of Love, which feeds an estimated 1000 homeless during the lockdown in Cape Town’s CBD.
But the organisation is in dire need of funds and donations of non-perishable goods.
Ladles of Love founder, Danny Diliberto, is appealing to the public to donate food, cash or even their time to feed the needy.
“We have committed with the City to assist the homeless with food for their temporary shelters they are erecting in the CBD, and therefore on-going donations are key during this challenging time,” he says.
Danny says the NPO needs support so that the team of volunteers can prepare 2000 meals including breakfast and lunch for the nearly 1000 mouths they need to feed.
The homeless who depend on these meals are people in the CBD lockdown shelters.
“We are focusing on working with The Haven Night Shelters in Green point and District Six, as well as the Culemborg Safe Space, to help serve the guys still wandering the streets, and I have been trying to direct them there as much as possible so that we can feed as many as possible.”
Ladles of Love says mense who are under lockdown at home can do their part by making meals which can be collected by volunteers.
“We are working on getting people in lockdown at home to help by, for example, making pots of soup and hundreds of sandwiches that can be collected by our Ladles of Love volunteer team and distributed to those in need,” says Danny.
To get involved as part of the remote volunteer team to make sandwiches or soup that will be collected by Ladles of Love, call Samara Stern on 076 064 369
.