The Lunchbox Fund has donated more than 140,000 food parcels to vulnerable, food insecure, and disadvantaged communities across South Africa.

Development Diaries gathered that the organisation had partnered with schools and non-profit organisations (NPO) to offer a daily varied school lunch.

It was learnt that the Lunchbox Fund launched the programme after schools were forced to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Research and Strategy Director at Lunchbox Fund, Alison Misselhorn, stated that NPOs applied for food relief through the Lunchbox Fund to provide vulnerable communities with food parcels.

It was noted that the fund was providing food relief to 572,000 beneficiaries through its partnership with various NPOs.

‘We provide a rotating menu of nutritionally fortified foods that are delicious and familiar. Each food relief package provides a wide range of macro and micro-nutrients, vitamins, and minerals’, she said.

Misselhorn also said, ‘We have 25,000 organisations across the country who are still waiting for food relief, and we solely depend on donations in the form of money to purchase the necessary food, which is packaged and distributed from our factory. This is then distributed through a logistics partner to the organisations, who then distribute it to the beneficiaries’.

Source: Citizen

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