Tannie Magda established a soup kitchen which she operated from her private home around 1994. While she started out by preparing meals outside on open fires, she has over the years managed to attract a big support group that assists her with food and supplies for the soup kitchen.

As many of you may know, our firm became involved with TANNIE MAGDA’S SOUP KITCHEN during 2016. We put a team together consisting of 31 companies and individuals and built her a brand-new soup kitchen and storeroom. This development has enabled Tannie Magda to continue providing meals on a much larger scale to the homeless and needy people in the Paarl, Wellington and Franschhoek area.

During 2018 we, together with a construction company, supplied a mobile soup kitchen to the community of Paternoster. There is no real support system in place in Paternoster and in order to support the initiative, Tannie Magda took it upon herself to source food and supplies and transport it to Paternoster once a month.

During the lockdown period, she has experienced a greater demand from the community since many people cannot currently work and have no income to purchase food and supplies.

Since Paternoster is essentially a tourist village, the lockdown has hit this community exceptionally hard. The demand for food from this soup kitchen has therefore exploded and this community is desperate.

We saw the need to start a further initiative in an attempt to assist Tannie Magda in providing food supplies to the soup kitchens in Paarl and Paternoster.

We wish to appeal to all our clients, friends, and families who, under these difficult circumstances, can afford to contribute, to please assist these communities. For most of us these are extremely difficult times but for many people, these are desperate times, with families that do not have the most basic food supplies to survive.

Should you wish to support this initiative, you can pay any amount into our trust account, the details of which are as follows:

ENDERSTEIN VAN DER MERWE TRUST ACCOUNT

Bank: Standard Bank

Account number: 370740904

Branch Code:050410

Reference: Soup Kitchen

The funds will be used to purchase vouchers at the local AgriMark, where after Tannie Magda and her husband Uncle Gary will collect the food and supplies for the soup kitchens.

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