Welcome to 2008!

Sjoe! 2008 already, and we faltered badly - I think we stopped having meetings in about July. We started the new year fresh and fit (and fat) and have scheduled a meeting for the end of the month! IN the mean time - an organisation I think is interesting and worthy of that news years resoluntion to be more generous!

Feedback:

Feedback Food Redistribution is a registered Non Profit Organisation , committed to community development in South Africa through food redistribution. Feedback is also a registered Public Benefit Organisation with donor deductability status.

Initiated in 2000 as a result of one women's efforts to redistribute excess food from Cape Town's film industry to those in need; Feedback has grown from delivering food which could provide approximately 200 meals, to an organisation which in the last year (F2007)has provided enough food for well over 14 million meals to 215 beneficiary organisations in the Western Cape, Gauteng and Kwa Zulu Natal.

Feedback meets beneficiaries' urgent food needs while encouraging them to become self-sufficient in food provision. This is done through a process which includes workshops and the introduction of independent food sources such as vegetable gardens.

4,359,595 kgs of excess food was redistributed in the last financial year - FY2007. (Kilograms estimated at the point of collection).

4995 kgs (or 19,980) sandwiches were redistributed in the last academic year from affluent schools to those in need as part of our Bread Buddies programme.

205 organizations for community based social services that we support with food as at February 2007.

4 operations (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Pietermaritzburg) within 3 regions.

Every beneficiary assessed every 6 months

Food distribution based on assessed need

355 people have participated in Feedback's Nutrition Development Workshops since inception, as part of our Food Security and Nutrition Development programme.

12 vegetable gardens that Feedback facilitated the implementation of.