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.

Mastercard, Pick n Pay and FoodForward SA have delivered more than 1.5 million meals to South African women and children following the success of their ‘Tap to Feed’ campaign.

As South Africans brace themselves for yet another petrol price increase to a record R16 a litre, the Shoprite Group is working hard to keep prices low and subsidise prices where it can to bring relief to consumers who are feeling the effect of escalating petrol prices and other rising costs on their pockets.

50% of edible agricultural production is wasted due to specification requirements, cold-chain and processing inadequacies as well as access to markets.

The goal: Collect 250 tonnes of food over three days to provide over a million meals. This is the task ahead for Pick n Pay and FoodForward SA’s second consecutive 2018 Mandela Day Food Drive, and they are encouraging South Africans to unite together to reach this goal.

The Shoprite Group is staging Africa’s biggest cleanup at which over 6000 people in nine countries are expected to participate in almost 500 events from 14-18 July to remove waste from communities.