School food declared safe but probe into pupils’ deaths continues
After two Mpumalanga pupils died of suspected food poisoning last month the school nutrition programme in the province has been declared safe, but some parents are not satisfied.
Gauteng food banks remain empty
Amost half-a-million Gauteng beneficiaries reliant on feeding schemes under the suspended provincial food bank programme, having already gone hungry for four months, are now facing a bleak Christmas.
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VIDEO: Hungry for Education
This is Kabelo and Keabetswe’s story about how a daily feeding scheme impacted their ability to perform at school.
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By Amy Green, May 7, 2018
Tormented by peers, children choose to go hungry
Children, especially in rural areas, are turning away from school feeding schemes because they fear being judged for being poor by their fellow learners, despite being hungry. HEALTH-E NEWS spoke to learners and experts about the stigma of hunger and its effect on children’s health and education.
Soup kitchen reduce food costs for poor families
Alexandra non-profit organisation Ucedo Lwa Bantu (Help for the Nation), originally established to help patients with chronic illnesses adhere to their medication programmes, has instead become a feeding programme.
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