Canal Walk Offers A Way To Feed The Hungry This Winter

This winter, children who visit Canal Walk Shopping Centre will be experiencing the finest theatre in the country, Alice in Wonderland and playing their part
in providing 250 000 meals to Stop Hunger Now.
Canal Walk will donate R5 from each ticket sold, as well as the proceeds of programme sales to Stop Hunger Now.
The centre will also play host to “Meals in Memory” packing events over two weekends prior to Mandela Day on July 18.
Since its inception in 2000, charitable causes have been close to the heart of the Canal Walk Children’s Theatre.
“We know that every day, two and a half million children in South Africa go hungry. In the face of such need, we can’t sit back and do nothing,”
says Canal Walk Shopping Centre Marketing Manager Vanessa Herbst. “That’s why we have been using the theatre production to raise money for charities for the past 14 years, and that’s why this year we are once again supporting Stop Hunger Now.”
“The ‘Meals in Memory’ also fits perfectly into the theme of food security for this year’s Mandela Day, announced by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on April 9,” she says.
The highly nutritious meals contain rice, soya, dehydrated vegetable mix and a fortification pack of 23 essential minerals and vitamins specifically formulated (complying with the UNICEF standard) to combat malnutrition.
Last year, with the proceeds raised by Canal Walk’s production of Peter Pan, Stop Hunger Now, Canal Walk packed 67 000 meals on Mandela Day.
This year they are smashing the records with an incredible 250 000 meals scheduled for packing over two weekends.
They are calling on companies and organisations to get involved to sponsor a packing line and to provide up to 25 volunteers to help pack the meals.

Author: Jessica Miller from HIPPO Communications.
More Info link: http://www.stophungernowsa.org/
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Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille with David Jacobs National Strategic Projects Manager of Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa