Social Development
With reference to claims made in the media on 2 April 2020 that her Department has several programmes that provide food to approximately 1 000 000 people who are food insecure:
- What is the detailed breakdown in terms of (i) age, (ii) area and (iii) food products given and (b) what is the (i) number and (ii) details of child-headed households supported during the lockdown period?
The media release of 2 April referred to 100 000 beneficiaries and not 1 000 000.
- (i) All ages
(ii) Across Province
(iii) DSD distributed food parcels at its feeding sites when cooked meal feeding was prohibited, and the next food parcel distribution followed during COVID 19 and the content of each parcel is tabled below:
Targeted Feeding Food Parcel – R750
Item | Packaging Size | Number of items |
Bread Flour / Cake Flour | 2.5 kg | 1 |
Carrots | 1 kg | 1 |
Cooking Oil | 750 ml | 1 |
Corned Beef | 300 g | 3 |
Instant Coffee | 250 g | 1 |
Longlife Milk | 1 litre | 6 |
Macaroni | 500 g | 1 |
Maize Meal | 2.5 kg | 1 |
Mix Fruit Jam | 450 g | 1 |
Oats | 1 kg | 1 |
Onions | 1 kg | 1 |
Peanut Butter | 410 g | 1 |
Pilchards in Tomato Sauce | 400 g | 3 |
Potatoes | 7 kg | 1 |
Rice | 2 kg | 1 |
Salt | 500 g | 1 |
Samp | 2.5 kg | 1 |
Soap (Body) | 200 g | 2 |
Soup Powder | Packet | 3 |
Spaghetti | 500 g | 1 |
Sugar | 2.5 kg | 1 |
Sugar Beans | 500 g | 1 |
Tea | 100 bags | 1 |
Tinned Food Bake Beans | 410 g | 3 |
Tinned Food Mix Veg | 410 g | 3 |
Tinned Food Sweet Corn | 410 g | 2 |
Toilet Paper | Each | 3 |
Toothpaste Oralwise | Each | 1 |
Yeast | 10 g | 2 |
DSD COVID -19 FOOD RELIEF PARCEL – R 400
Food Parcel Content
Rice x 2kg
Maize Meal 2KG
Cake Flour x 2,5 KG
Sugar x 2,5 KG
Cooking Oil x 2 litres
Salt
Peanut butter x 1KG
Rooi bos tea (100)
Milk powder full cream 2,7 kg
Samp 1 x 2kg
Baked Beans 410g x 2
Lentils 2 x 500g
Beefstock x 12
Instant yeast x 4 packets
Sunlight soap 2 x packets
Soup mix 2 x 500g
Mixed fruit jam 1 x 450g
Mixed Vegetables 410g x 2
During the lockdown period the Department of Social Development via the Sustainable Livelihoods programme made provision for 4920 food parcels that was distributed to all Targeted feeding beneficiaries and their households to provide for a family of 4 with nutritional support. The programme was therefore able to reach a total of 19 680 beneficiaries.
The programme also provided hot meals to 5000 beneficiaries daily at the 20 Community Nutrition and Development centres across the Province. The Existing Targeted Feeding sites were also up scaled and provided 1890 additional meals on a daily basis. Additionally, 15 beneficiary organisations providing food relief to 10 000 beneficiaries were supported by FOODFORWARDSA with ingredients to prepare hot meals.
On the current food parcel distribution, to date (13 May 2020), we have managed to distribute 23 039 food parcels, assisting more than 92 156 family members, assuming an average family size of four.
Three meals a day was provided to 27 000 residences in Social Development funded Old Age Homes, shelters for Woman, Shelters for Homeless, Child and Youth Care Centres and homes for the Disabled. Food was also provided to 50 000 children that benefitted from ECDs. Meals were also provided at 14 Drop-in-Centres and by 20 HIV/AIDS NPOs that reached 4000 beneficiaries per week.
- (i) 16 child headed households
(ii) One child headed household in Strand area, 2 Households in Delft, 12 in Khayelitsha and 1 in Milnerton. These households have been supported with food parcels and psychosocial support. They also supported by specific NPOs contracted by the Department.
