Working on a six weeks cycle, Salaam Foundation delivers 10 000 meat and veggies packs to families around Gauteng. The meat packs supplanted by healthy organic vegetables and groceries in some areas are delivered to various communities helping to fight the huge issue of food insecurity. Around eleven communities receive the packs and 15 areas are visited for home deliveries. We are going to be introducing some of these communities and the impact these meal packs have.
This week the focus is on Welverdiend.
Welverdiend is a small town in West Rand District Municipality in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is around 85 km south-west of Johannesburg, just west of Carletonville. The community is an extremely vulnerable one and faces many challenges including violence, gender-based violence and land issues.
Within the area, Salaam Foundation has been working with an orphanage and madrassah providing meal parcels and madrassah support.
The meal parcel forms part of Salaam Foundation’s 10 000 meals programme. Meat parcels, vegetables and groceries are given to the orphanage and madrassah. Meals are provided for the girls who stay at the home and receive their Islamic education as well. Salaam Foundation also provides madrassah support which includes taking the girls and the teachers at the madrassah out on fun trips.
Salaam Foundation has taken the girls for excursion trips where they can spend time in nature and have fun outside while still learning a little.
Initially Salaam Foundation started a farming project at the orphanage, planting spinach and other vegetables. From that point, the relationship started and Salaam Foundation have been supporting the orphanage in various ways.
The madrassah/orphanage houses around 62 girls ranging from toddler to teens. Apa Hasina, who helps run the madrassah, said they take care of the underprivileged girls in the area. She has been working for the madrasa for many years and stays on the premises with the girls, taking care of them. There are also around five girls who come to the madrassah to attend the afternoon classes. The girls all go to school during the morning and in the afternoon, they return to the madrasa. They have a meal, read salah and then start their madrasa classes. The madrasa runs programmes for the younger children as well as the older girls.
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