Chicken producer lends support to food drive in Pretoria
A collaboration between the chicken industry and nonprofit organisations (NGOs) WeCan and Atterbury Trust has delivered hope to 222 vulnerable families in Pretoria in the form of food parcels.
According to principal Erich Cloete, several of the families whose children attend Westerlig Primary School in the west of Pretoria live a hand-to-mouth existence that has been severely impacted by the lockdown.
The meals provided by the school’s kitchen are sometimes the only food that some of the children have in a day, and with lockdown regulations limiting school access, he laments that hunger has become an even bigger spectre.
It is for this reason that South African Poultry Association (SAPA) GM Izaak Breitenbach reached out to the NGOs and suggested that the chicken industry lend a helping hand to add protein to the vegetable and maize-meal packs that were being offered as part of the food drive in the region.
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