The Labon Foundation
category
Community Development & Social Cohesion
primary SDG
Zero Hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
address
138 Bluegum St, Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, 7764, South Africa
We help families, children and individuals at risk of hunger by providing them a nutritional cooked meal 5 days a week.
More about The Labon Foundation
We are a registered NPO that operate in the townships of Bonteheuwel and Bishop Lavis. These areas are poverty stricken and have a high unemployment rate. Our main focus is poverty alleviation, food security and creating job opportunities. We run a community feeding scheme five days a week. To many of our beneficiaries this is the only nutritional, cooked meal they have for the day. We also operate community food gardens with the aim to provide fresh vegetables to the community kitchen. The people who work in the gardens receive a stipend from the EPWP (Extended Public Works Programme) and VPUU (Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading). We build capacity by teaching home gardening and entrepreneurship skills. We want to transform our community food garden into a small-scale urban farm for three reasons: (1) Supply more produce to the soup kitchen and surrounding ECDs. (2) Sell produce to make the project more financially viable, (3) build the capacity of those working in the ...
Our staff (1)
Directors of The Labon Foundtion
Runs the Bishop lavis and Bonteheuwel area
Photos
Gardening.
feeding time.
Feeding time.
Feeding nutritional Meal.
planting seedlings.
Our EPWP workers doing the most in our community garden.
