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Magda Sopkombuis

Magda Meyer

Her initial struggle to feed her family ends up feeding a community

Magda’s soup Kitchen is much more than a distributor of food, Giving physical mental and spiritual support, empowering and uplifting the community by:-

Washing, feeding & clothing children up to the age of 6 years of which many that are HIV/AIDS positive.

Going to the houses of the aged and infirm to wash and care for them.

Running two soup kitchens, feeding over 2000 people in Pedro Street and Beukes Street every week.

Running Christmas Parties every year for over 4000 needy people with presents for the children.

Organizing outings for the children in the community to places such as Butterfly World, Table Mountain, the Lion Park and also to local prisons to show young people the dangers and results of crime.

feeding a Community

Magda Sopkombuis

Her plan involved putting pride aside, and knocking on doors in Paarl to offer her cleaning services in exchange for food, wood and clothes. The work involved long hours, and included tasks like bathing elderly residents, but she persevered.

Not having any form of transport, she would have to hitch rides on the bakkies (pick-up trucks) of businessmen back to her home, making 3 to 4 changes along the way at times. When she got home, she still had to cook, clean and feed her children.

When she got home, she still had to cook, clean and feed her children.

Now many people in her situation, once they have secured a stable pipeline of work that brought enough to feed her family, would stop there and take a rest.

Not Magda!

She realised there were many people in her situation, also battling the depression of joblessness, and she felt a calling to use the little she had left over to help them as well.

Her home was equipped with an old-fashioned but large wood stove, and together with a large copper pot she began using her unused food and wood to open a small soup kitchen for some of her neighbours.