In the face of South Africa’s youth unemployment rate of 46.3%, youth in KwaZulu-Natal have risen to the challenge of creating jobs for themselves, and subsequently partnered with Shoprite’s sustainable community food garden programme.

Small supplier Ree Collective and Checkers donated 300 diaper bags filled with Lovies nappies and wipes to various mother-and-child care non-government organisations in the Boland earlier this week.

Shoprite donated hundreds of pairs of school shoes in Theunissen, Free State, along with local DJ Mbulelo “LeGoody” Khathaza this week.

It’s harvest time at the Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital’s food garden in Mitchells Plain and just under 50kg of organic produce from this garden is being used by the Shoprite Mobile Soup Kitchen to feed community members in Wesbank and Khayelitsha.

The Shoprite Group has heeded the call from Gift of the Givers to assist in the water crisis currently crippling Johannesburg hospitals - and it has empowered customers to donate directly to the humanitarian organisation’s work on the ground.

The Shoprite Group has a fundraising drive in all of its 764 Shoprite, Checkers and Checkers Hyper supermarkets countrywide in an effort to combat stunting, which impacts 1.5 million South African children, with 3 out of every 10 children suffering chronic malnutrition.

The Shoprite Group has acted swiftly to bring relief to community members affected by severe flooding in the Overberg district.

Customers who wish to support the Table Mountain fire relief efforts can do so by donating to the Act For Change Fund at the till point in any Shoprite, Checkers or Usave supermarket nationally.