Zero2Five go beyond food parcels to address food security crisis in KZN
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Julika Falconer, CEO of Zero2Five Trust, said that vital early learning - which had already suffered during the COVID-19 lockdown – was at risk of being lost again as some pre-schools initially remained closed and affected children who had lost everything at their homes were unable to return to school.
She said that it was only thanks to immediate relief grants from the LEGO Foundation, DGMT, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, Standard Bank’s Tutuwa Foundation, JT Ross Charitable Trust, Illovo Sugar SA, and the Grindrod Family Centenary Trust, that the Zero2Five Trust was able to immediately reach out to many affected areas over the past four months.
“Our initial response was a large-scale assessment, clean-up operation, and the distribution of food donations and warm blankets in eThekwini, ILembe, uMlalazi, and uThukela. Thousands of residents were without safe drinking water due to the floods. Rise Against Hunger KZN assisted with much-needed 10l containers of drinking water,” she said.
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She said that it was only thanks to immediate relief grants from the LEGO Foundation, DGMT, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, Standard Bank’s Tutuwa Foundation, JT Ross Charitable Trust, Illovo Sugar SA, and the Grindrod Family Centenary Trust, that the Zero2Five Trust was able to immediately reach out to many affected areas over the past four months.
“Our initial response was a large-scale assessment, clean-up operation, and the distribution of food donations and warm blankets in eThekwini, ILembe, uMlalazi, and uThukela. Thousands of residents were without safe drinking water due to the floods. Rise Against Hunger KZN assisted with much-needed 10l containers of drinking water,” she said.
WR Van Der Merwe has more in Business Watch
Image: (Supplied)
