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Original Post Date: 2008-04-27 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Interesting. Will Poor whites also be allowed to use it? Jan]
By Yugendree Naidoo
A food banking system is planned for South Africa to bring relief to those most at risk of hunger and malnutrition.
The US-based Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) initiative will enable organisations that run feeding schemes to buy supplies at a discount, benefiting thousands, and help set up new programmes as needed.
The GFN operates in 14 countries that contain a third of the world’s 854 million undernourished people.
About five million South Africans live on less than R7,50 a day, according to the mid-2007 GFN report The South African Food Bank National Development Programme, with the result that 9,2 percent of children under 5 are underweight, malnutrition stunts the growth of one in five, and 15 percent of newborns have a low birth weight.
In addition, 25 percent of adults are unemployed and 21,5 percent have HIV/Aids, the report said.
GFN spokesperson Maurice Weaver did not want to divulge details of setting up the South African arm, the South Forum for Food Security (SAFFS), as logistics were still being finalised with key stakeholders.
He said the GFN was working with government, food manufacturers, faith and non-profit organisations to set up the food bank.
Adele Latchman, fundraiser at the Catholic Welfare Development’s War Against Manutrition, Tuberculosis and Hunger programme, said they hoped the food bank would be running in two major centres by March next year.
Latchman said the plan was to have four regional arms in Durban, Johanesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth linked to a national bank by 2010. The SAFFS had approached big brands about selling products cheaper or donating supplies.
She said a food bank would make a “huge difference” in eradicating hunger as rising food prices reduced schemes’ ability to supply food to a growing poor population. “It would be fantastic to have the big-name brands on board because I’m sure they would assist us a lot,” she added.
Concern
Economic Justice Network food security project assistant Simon Vilakazi expressed concern about the number of people going hungry in South Africa. Vilakazi said a coalition of non-government organisations in Cape Town was engaging the GFN to create a food bank that would store and distribute food.
He called on the government to assist in the fight for food security and contribute towards the food bank as it was a practical, long-term solution. “With help, we can avoid the food crisis experienced in other countries and prevent riots.”
The South African Food Bank National Development Programme said 38 organisations had agreed to be part of the SAFFS and six leaders, including Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya, had been chosen from government, faith and business organisations to serve as co-chairs and help establish the bank.
Riots have erupted in many countries, including Haiti, Egypt, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Ethiopia and Madagascar as the poor protest over high basic food prices.
In South Africa, Cosatu has threatened protests over soaring basic food prices, with food price inflation having accelerated to 14,1 percent in February.
Some basic foods such as rice, cooking oil, salt, soya relish, dehydrated vegetables, samp and beans and bread have all “doubled” in price over the past year, said Peninsula School Feeding Association director Andy du Plessis. – West Cape News