 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
The feeding programme provides a nutritious porridge-like food each morning for over 400 children at a cost of approximately R12 (£1) per child per month. The food is delivered and monitored by the staff from the Farm as required and there are no administrative costs involved. This feeding programme has been extended now to some 87 youths who attend supervised homework classes in attractive surroundings each day at the Farm and are provided with a hot meal. The Farm also provides the ingredients for some young people to bake bread and make sandwiches each day for their peer group who take the bus to School. An initiative which is being encouraged. At the weekends 15 children are being looked after and fed at five safe houses on farms in the area to protect them from domestic violence. Seven schools close to the Farm are also being helped with an e-pap breakfast for the most needy children.
Mary & Neil Jephcott who live in East Portlemouth visit the Cape regularly. Through the family Charitable Trust they were involved in helping to fund the building of a Dam, essential to the Farm which is run by Ann and Peter Templeton and operates numerous programmes, training courses and projects for local farm workers and their families in the area. One of these projects is the feeding programme for children. During their stay in the Cape, Neil and Mary visit the Farm regularly and report to the Church on the distribution, the numbers being fed and the monitoring of the children.
The donations from St Winwaloe's are very gratefully received as they form a substantial contribution to the funding of this project. Further details of the work of the Goedgedacht Trust can be found on www.goedgedachttrust.org.za
Donations can be sent to Grow Peace, 27 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich IP4 1AQ, the UK office of Goedgedacht. Please indicate they are for the Feeding Programme.