For the fifth year in a row, South Africa’s poultry producers have donated chicken and eggs to organisations cooking soup to help feed poor people on Mandela Day.
Mandela Day is celebrated in South Africa by individuals and organisations doing good works to commemorate former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday on 18 July.
The poultry industry contributes to the Mandela Day soup challenge run annually by the NGO Chefs with Compassion. The result this year was a record 113 610 litres of soup, which translated into more than 10 million individual meals served to people in need across South Africa.
Details were published in the Poultry Bulletin, official journal of the SA Poultry Association (SAPA).
Poultry producers Astral, Rainbow and Country Bird donated substantial amounts of chicken to the project, and Quantum supplied dozens and dozens of eggs.
Organiser Dasen Sarungasar told the Poultry Bulletin that the poultry industry had been the biggest single contributor to the soup challenge, year after year,
“The massive donations of chicken and eggs by our poultry donors are a highlight for us, because it is so rare to have high-value protein available for our efforts,” he said.
Chefs with Compassion specialises in collecting food which would otherwise go to waste and turning it into nutritious meals for community food schemes and hunger-relief programmes.
