Corporate Responsibility » Community involvement » Mobile Soup Kitchens

The Shoprite feeding program aims to assist the poorest communities in South Africa by distributing soup to alleviate the plight of especially children and senior citizens, as well as the thousands of people affected by job losses. At times soup trucks are sent to areas that are affected by disasters, such as floods, in a relief effort.

The project launched with two mobile kitchen units in March 2009 serving Gauteng and the North West Province. Eight new trucks were received in June 2009 which expanded the project with two further mobile soup kitchens in each of the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces and one each in the Free State/Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces bringing the total to 10. The Group estimates that through this national feeding programme it will be distributing at least 150 000 meals of nutritional soup and bread per month to help improve the nutritional status of the people of South Africa.

We thank Royco, Toyota South Africa, Volkswagen South Africa and Mercedes South Africa for their support for Shoprite’s feeding initiative.

Also see:

* Shoprite announces major feeding program for South African market
* Shoprite expands feeding programme countrywide to fight hunger and malnutrition