Following the success of Mandela Day food parcel project, Tiger Brands is distributing a further 10 620 food parcels to learners for the December school holiday period.
The distribution will take place on 30 November 2013, 1 and 4 December 2013 at schools in the Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal and Musina (Limpopo) that benefit from the Tiger Brands Foundation in-school breakfast feeding programme, and to the schools that benefited from the Tiger Brands CSI/ Mandela Day initiative in July 2013.
Thanks to the Tiger Brands Foundation’s in-school breakfast feeding programme and the Department of Basic Education’s National School Nutrition Programme, learners receive a nutritional breakfast and a cooked lunch every school day of the year.
Both the breakfast and lunch school nutrition programmes are facilitated and managed through the in-school feeding programme, which means the children do not receive either meal during weekends and school holidays.
The purpose of the Tiger Brands Food Parcel programme is to supply the learners and their families with basic food supply for the December school holidays. This will ensure that the learners do not return to school at the beginning of the 2014 school year, malnourished.
“Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.” – Nelson Mandela
Please join us at the Eastern Cape distribution on 4 December
Venue: Nonesi Primary School, Lady Frere, Eastern Cape
Time: 08h00 for 08h30
For media accreditation: please RSVP to Barry Dijoe via email corporatecommunications@tigerbrands.com by Monday 2 December, 2013
Note: Transport will be provided from Queenstown – details on accreditation
The December food parcel project forms part of our three-year partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation that aims to address food security challenges.
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For more information contact:
Barry Dijoe
Group Communications Manager
011 840 4129 or 071 164 5719