Over 150 servings of freshly cook food prepared by volunteers with juice distributed over the Easter weekend in Stonebridge, Clayfield, Bhambayi & Caneside in KZN.
Immunity Packs for Senior Citizens
Immunity Packs distributed to senior citizens in Zandspruit Informal settlement in Emthonjeni Community Centres, Zandspruit, Honeydew
Immunity Packs distributed by the Obs Pasta Kitchen
The Obs Pasta Kitchen would like to say a BIG thank you to the IAHV and the Stand for Humanity project for sending us 100 immunity packs to hand out to our community. These were distributed as follows:
Obs Pasta Kitchen beneficiaries received 63 packs
Streetscapes beneficiaries in Observatory received 15 packs
Streetscapes beneficiaries in Kuils River received 14 packs
Streetscapes beneficiaries in Cape Town CBD received 8 packs
Everyone was incredibly grateful to receive this healthy gift of 1000mg vitamin C effervescent tablets, and turmeric and ginger masala tea.
Obs Pasta Kitchen has been working with the Streetscapes house in Observatory and its sister locations mentioned above. These are houses that have been set up in different areas around Cape Town to home the formerly homeless and provide employment in the form of organic vegetable gardening and cleaning. Obs Pasta Kitchen’s dream was to assist the homeless with shelter and the Streetscapes partnership has made it come true.
Thanks again for your support !
Immunity Packs | Ikageng Itireleng Aids Ministry
The volunteers of our Immunity Care Project distributed Immunity Packs at the Ikageng Itireleng Aids Ministry, in Orlando West, Soweto to the frontline staff, Caregivers and those who recovering from COVID.
Keep the Ocean Clean | 20 February 2021
Keep the Ocean Clean Campaign held on 20.02.2021 at the Bike & Bean Beach in KZN. Gloves, Bin bags and hand sanitizers were also provided.
Beans & Bunnies | Sri Sri Feeding Scheme
Volunteers prepared scrumptious Beans and samp dishes and Bunnies – (A Bunny, is a South African fast food dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of white bread filled with curry.
Fresh vegetables | Sri Sri Gardening Project
Fresh vegetables and beetroot from the garden at Suthsung Sabha Temple in Clayfield in Phoenix, Durban.
Blankets Donated
This year The Groenpunt Correctional Services has made a record number of 101 blankets to be distributed by various organisations. Thank you to Chintz Bhana for donating the wool. This project was headed by the social worker Mrs. Annie Hanekom and many of the blankets were knitted by her, the inmates and other individuals.
IAHV was awarded 39 of these blankets. Isabelle, Maria and Anil assisted on behalf of IAHV handed out the blankets to the Logos Theo’s Church in Vaalview, Vanderbijlpark.
The congregation were very thankful to our good deed.
School Bag and Sanitary Pad Drive 2021 – Packing and Distribution during COVID-19
In December 2021, the packing and distribution of hampers to disadvantaged children in the Klipgat region was rather different to previous years. With the pandemic still quite rife, we needed to ensure that we can still successfully reach the same amount of children, as we do annually, while still ensuring the safety of all volunteers and the children.
Through a large stream of donations that came through from a large number of people, we were able to secure great quality school bags, stationery, masks and liquid sanitizer for 800 disadvantaged children. We were also able to secure a supply of sanitary pads for girls who require them but may not always have access to them.
The packing was done with approximately 20 volunteers at the Shree Pretoria Hindu Seva Samaj premises on a Friday evening and the bags were distributed swiftly by a small group of volunteers on the Saturday morning in the Klipgat region.
Despite many challenges experienced, the initiative was a success yet again!
A special thanks to all those wonderful volunteers who assisted in packing until late on Friday night. Thanks to SPHSS for the use of the mini hall for this purpose.
A heartfelt thanks to the volunteers who assisted in the distribution at the two venues on Saturday and at the two schools on Monday.
A BIG THANK YOU to our generous donors. You have put a smile on the faces of 800 indigent children as well as 50 young ladies who received 3 months stock of sanitary pads as well as personal under garments. Your donations has ensured that the sanitary pads drive will be repeated for the next three quarters to the same young lasses, who will then in fact, receive sanitary pads supplies for a full year.
An extra special thanks goes out to Howard Shankman of Railway Furnishers, who generously donated all the stationery. Sanjay Govind for the school books. Balwant Parbhoo from Sea Breeze who donated 800 masks for the children, all of whom masked up before receiving their gifts, in line with Covid protocols, as well as to Anil Kalyan from Fine Art Printers for the donation of 800 adult masks. Not forgetting Shiraz Gani for the loan of his truck and driver to transport the bags to Klipgat and surrounds.
See you all next year!
Pasta Kitchen – Food Parcels / November
Thank you to all the donations that have come in these last few months, especially to our regular donors! We managed to buy and deliver 90 food parcels to those in need!
The Obs Pasta Kitchen is grateful for all your support and wish you a safe and healthy Festive season.
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