Dear Friends
| Fast Facts |
| 28 Jan - Name "FoodBank South Africa" selected. |
| 2 Mar - FoodBank Cape Town opens its doors. |
| 6 Apr - FoodBank South Africa inauguration. |
| 6 Apr - National government commits to supporting FoodBank South Africa. |
| 26 May - Launch of FoodBank Johannesburg. |
| 8 Jun - Admitted as a member of the Global FoodBanking Network. |
18 July - Mandela Day "67 Minutes" Campaign
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21 July - FoodBank Durban Launches
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24 July - FoodBank Durban goes "Feeding with the Sharks"
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 It is once again our pleasure to update you on the progress of the FoodBank South Africa network.
On July 21, FoodBank Durban celebrated its official launch, and already after a week of operations we are now distributing the "miracle number" of 5 000 loaves of bread daily to disadvantaged communities in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and surrounding communities. We have another 6 FoodBanks in the incubation stage, so keep listening for more news in the coming months.
On the 9th of August, South Africans celebrate National Women's Day. A little known fact about hunger is that it is unequally biased in respect of gender: More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women! So, as an organisation whose primary aim is to tackle hunger in South Africa, we focus this month's newsletter on some of our beneficiary organisations that specifically empower women. One such organisation is the Ncedusizwe Ladies Club in Gugulethu, where their Inter-generation programme pairs orphans from one of our other beneficiaries with "grannies" at the Club every Wednesday afternoon.
Lastly, we announce the first phase of our online donations portal http://donate.foodbank.org.za, where we now are able to accept rand-based donations via credit card. Any contribution you can make will be valued and put to highly effective use, as we continue on our target to build 20 FoodBanks in 3 years.
As a team, and on behalf of our 14 million "Bosses", the hungry of South Africa, we thank you for your continued support of FoodBank SA.
Warm regards from the team at FoodBank SA
FoodBank Durban Launches!  FoodBank Durban launched with a festive event attended by more than 200 guests at their new warehouse in Briardene. Many dignitaries attended the event, with the Mayor of Ethekweni, Councillor Obed Mlaba, performing the ribbon cutting ceremony and the opening address.
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FoodBank Durban goes Feeding with the Sharks
FoodBank Durban was at the Bulls versus Sharks game on Friday 24 July at the ABSA stadium. They were not just there to watch the game, but were also part of a novel food sourcing operation as well with volunteers from the Ottawa Shelter.
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Ncedusizwe Ladies Club: Grannies for Orphans
One of the benefits of building a FoodBank network is the ability to put beneficiaries together to work on common projects. One such project is the Intergeneration Programme which runs with the Ncedusizwe Ladies Club in Gugulethu, which comprises of elderly ladies and youths between the ages of 12 and 16 years.
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Profile: Ntomby Ngema, FoodBank Durban
 As part of our Women's Day celebrations this month, we profile some of our women team members in the FoodBank Network. Ntomby Ngema is the Operations Manager of the newly-launched FoodBank Durban, and has made her career serving the community, starting out with working with street children, and now with FoodBank.
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Mandela Day "67 Minutes" Campaign
 As part of the Mandela Day celebrations to mark Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday, FoodBank SA launched its "67 Minutes" campaign. Participants were encouraged to use 67 minutes to learn about hunger, spend time educating their families, engage their community, use social media and make a donation to the work of FoodBank. While the Mandela Day celebration has ended, you can still encourage people to begin their own 67 Minutes Action Plan.
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Our Progress So Far...
 Each month you can track our progress in our goal of building 20 FoodBanks in 3 years in South Africa. Full plates show fully operational FoodBanks (currently 3), plates with just cutlery show FoodBanks in the incubation stage (currently 6) and the empty plates show FoodBanks yet to be established.
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