Preparing anything up to a thousand cooked meals to distribute in the community on any one day means it's a very early start to the day for Michelle van Niekerk and her team. Food preparation comes naturally to Michelle, she's been serving township people with food since 2001 when she recognised that God had given her a talent that she wanted to share with others. She's well into her stride by 6am.
The food programme now impacts on several townships and the charity has worked hard to find individuals who are willing to help with food preparation from ingredients that have been donated. Heideveld, Langa, Nyanga, Bonteheuwel and Khayelitsha have all benefited from the group of selfless helpers with an inexhaustible desire to see people nourished. Often it's a simple meal of pasta and soya mince, or chicken and rice that is provided. Some will not have eaten for two days.
The food programme also includes the Ark Drug Rehabilitation Centre. In excess of four hundred men with a drug dependency live here, many of them looking to kick a heroin addiction. The Centre is not supported by government and has well above average success rates. Goal50 provides staple ingredients like rice which the recovery residents convert into tasty meals. At least one cooked meal per week is prepared from these donations.
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