Our MRD Programme – Two Years Later
This month, we proudly celebrate the two-year anniversary of the launch of our very first Mobile Rural Depot (MRD). In June 2019, we undertook our maiden MRD trip to Worcester.…
Cohort Four Ready to Tackle our Youth Internship Programme
To help address youth unemployment and to lower barriers that prevent young people from entering the food supply chain industry, FoodForward SA launched its Youth Internship Programme (YIP), in May…
Smollan Partners with FoodForward SA to Strengthen Communities
On 21 May 2021, proud Western Cape Smollan staff members handed over an incredible 300 kg of food to our team in Cape Town as well as the first proceeds…
Vodacom Advances our Scaling Plan with R2 million Donation
In 2020, during the height of the Covid pandemic, Vodacom approached FoodForward SA to explore how they could assist us in reaching more vulnerable beneficiaries. As their purpose is to…
FoodForward SA Supports Skills Development Centres that Empower SA’s Youth
FoodForward SA strategically supports beneficiary organisations (BOs) that create meaningful employment opportunities for vulnerable or at-risk youth. Sixty-five of our 1,090 BOs (6%) are skills development organisations, through which we…
WE NEED A GOVERNMENT THAT DELIVERS BETTER VALUE FOR MONEY
In October 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that “corruption has cost South Africa as much as R1 trillion”. This is a staggering amount of taxpayers’ money that was wasted, at…
Evaluating FoodForward SA’s Measurable Impact
Why don’t more people donate to food relief organisations? In these challenging economic times, so many people are going hungry. Our MD, Andy Du Plessis, highlighted in his think piece…
OneFarm Share Partnership Delivers Over 2 Million Meals
Since launching their innovative OneFarm Share initiative in response to the acute food crisis caused by Covid-19 lockdowns, Standard Bank has contributed greatly to the variety and tonnage of food…
FoodForward SA’s Food Parcel Programme for Vulnerable Individuals Goes National
Due to the success of the food relief project we launched with the Western Cape Department of Health and Pick n Pay’s Feed the Nation Foundation and increasing food insecurity…