Source: By email from Bob Forney, GFN, 22 Jun 2009The entire Global FoodBanking team (GFN) wishes to extend our congratulations to you and the hundreds of South Africans that have been our friends and partners in the development of FoodBank South Africa.
We understand the challenges that you are facing and the difficulty of your mission but are confident in the capacity of South Africans to provide food security to their neighbors in need. Yes, there is much to do but what you have accomplished during these last two years is unmatched in the history of global food banking.
CAPE TOWN - For many years, Homebase UK has donated furniture from their summer catalogue shoot to be sold to raise funds for Feedback (which is now transformed into FoodBank South Africa). On 5th & 6th of June 2009, recently donated items went on sale at the The Cape Academy of Mathematics, Science & Technology in Cape Town. Despite real winter weather and visits to the venue by a troop of inquisitive baboons on Friday afternoon, almost all items were sold by lunch time on Saturday, with many people snapping up some incredible bargains.
