South Africa: Soup Kitchen Serves Eastern Cape Children the Only Meal They'll Eat That Day

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The Human Rights Commission has recommended that child malnutrition in the province be declared a disaster

It's about 3pm in Cwebeni, a small village near Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape, and children and their mothers are lining up for what might be their only meal of the day.

In Cwebeni alone, they serve between 400 and 500 meals a day, according to one of iThemba Khuluntu's founders, TJ Hanneman. A handful of women volunteer their time to cook about four times a week. With little prospect of finding employment, life in Cwebeni is very hard. Villagers complain about a lack of basic services. They say they have been forgotten by the authorities.

 

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