Souper Brewery produces emergency rations
When Woodstock Brewery closed its doors during lockdown, it was an outrageous but ingenious idea to repurpose the brewery equipment to make soup for the masses. And in a matter of a few months, nearly 1.5 million soup portions have been produced. South Africans call the project Mother Soup - a local reference to Cape Town being the mother city. And the demand for soup is increasing by the week.
Covid-scarred townships are reaching desperate levels. Working together, the brewery and the charity have come to the rescue of thousands of households in South Africa’s poorest communities. Almost 40% of adults have reduced their meal frequencies due to lack of food and money to buy food.
Almost 30% of adults and 20% of children go to bed hungry. Rapidly rising unemployment makes the future even more uncertain.
The services of skilled chefs, a dietician and a food technolgist have been kindly sponsored. Up to 14,000 litres of soup has been cooked in one day. The charity has many years experience running food programmes and their on-the-ground distributors ensure that soup goes where it’s most needed as well as operating at no cost to the project. This means that every cash donation goes entirely towards the production of soup. A portion of soup and bread is produced for less than 10p.
If you can help financially, you would bring huge relief to hungry townships. Please press the DONATE button below. Alternatively, email Goal50s founder, Nigel Pascoe at goal50gsy@gmail.com
