Next week, 20 employees from Ford South Africa's Struandale Engine Plant will spend a day converting a metal shipping container into a soup kitchen capable of serving 500 disadvantaged people a week. The work at Lingelethu Soup Kitchen north of Port Elizabeth is one of 310 community service projects to be completed during Ford Motor Company's ninth annual Global Week of Caring. In all, more than 13,000 volunteers from Ford operations on six continents - Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North … [Read more...] about Lingelethu Soup Kitchen focus of local week of caring
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R10 million Poverty Alleviation Initiative to Start on Monday
Thousands of people from poverty-stricken families in five wards in Nelson Mandela Bay will receive much needed nutritious food from Monday, 8 August 2011, onwards, thanks to the municipality's bold intervention (Editors Notes: Let us not forget that BOLD steps are easy to take when using ratepayers money and tolerance). Following months of preparation and the recent signing of a facilitation agreement between the municipality and the Eastern Cape Development Corporation, the relief effort … [Read more...] about R10 million Poverty Alleviation Initiative to Start on Monday
