Unemployed matriculants from KwaMashu after having no luck in finding job, decided to start a food garden to feed their community and sell vegetables. That garden is now 2.5 hectares and is bearing fruit.

Pick n Pay and FoodForward SA have launched their third annual Mandela Day Food Drive and invite all South Africans to contribute towards the ambitious goal of collecting 500 tonnes of food – enough to produce two million meals.

Helping needy local communities has become a cornerstone of the Kit Kat Group’s annual outreach. This year, for the tenth consecutive year, the group has donated blankets that its staff members have handed out to local community members, hospitals and schools."

The Shoprite Group says it continues to upskill thousands of people every year, as part of an initiative to help reduce the South Africa’s unemployment rate, which has reached 55.2% among the youth.

As World Hunger Day (28 May 2019) reminds consumers that more than 821 million people do not have enough food and that 60% of the world’s hungry are women, the Shoprite Group remains fully committed to the fight against hunger in all the countries where it operates.

Started by five local women from the Tumahole township on the outskirts of Parys in the Free State, Phahamang Basadi food garden has been providing fresh and affordable vegetables to the community since 2017.

The Shoprite Group has made its Shoprite and Checkers stores available to those South Africans wanting to reach out and help the people of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape following the recent devastating floods.

They abandoned their first food garden because there wasn’t a sufficient water supply plus goats trampled and ate the plants. Now ten years later Nurses at a Go, an NPO focused on improving the lives of people affected by HIV, has a flourishing food garden in a different location. Their garden is supported by Shoprite and provides fresh vegetables to a community in Luganda, Pinetown.

A partnership with Shoprite enables South Africa’s only centre for abused and trafficked men to offer hope and recovery through gardening.

A motivated group of people from Alexandra in Gauteng has partnered with Shoprite on their journey to self-sustainability.

Without proper nutrition SA's education outcomes will continue to be dire and our health sector will continue to collapse as more and more people get sick.

Woolworths celebrates World Food Day with the launch of the One Small Spoon campaign to unite its employees, customers, suppliers, farmers, and other partners in a consolidated drive to contribute to ensuring that every South African accesses sufficient, nutritious food every day.