Carnival City joins the fight to stop hunger
Carnival City has enthusiastically hopped on board Sun International and Stop Hunger Now South Africa’s international meal packaging challenge, Follow the Sun.
This will take place during July, to commemorate International Mandela Day.
Carnival City urges local businesses and caring citizens to Follow the Sun and to spend 67 minutes of their time to help pack meals for children in need.
The Follow the Sun challenge is buoyed by the Mandela Day event in 2015, that saw caring citizens across the country pack some 1.2-million meals in one day.
This was a world first and now the vision is to create the first and largest international Mandela Day event ever undertaken in the world.
The goal is to pack 10 million meals worldwide, with two million meals to be packed in South Africa at five Sun International sites nationally, over a period of seven days, between July 13 and 20.
Carnival City will host the Follow the Sun meal packing challenge on July 19.
Sun International employees, representatives of caring businesses, government representatives and other like-minded stakeholders, including Miss SA, Ntandoyenkosi Kunene, and Miss Universe, Pauline Vega, who is the global ambassador for Stop Hunger Now, will come together and roll up their sleeves to pack food parcels for the needy.
Volunteers can lend a helping hand by assisting with packing dried goods to be delivered to hungry children around South Africa.
Each volunteer will spend 67 minutes commemorating Nelson Mandela by packing products into meal boxes, which will ultimately feed a child for an entire year.
The significance of 67 minutes refers to every year of Nelson Mandela’s life spent in public service, between 1942 and 2009, when the Nelson Mandela Foundation first introduced Mandela Day.
“We urge local businesses and our community to Follow the Sun and help make a difference in the lives of those who are weakened by hunger,” said Annemie Turk, the general manager at Carnival City.
Distressingly, around three million children in South Africa go to school hungry.
“It is paramount that organisations like ourselves continue to do more, so that we can eradicate hunger in this country,” said Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa CEO Saira Khan.
“We are grateful to our strategic partners Sun International, Connecting Africa, the Mandela Centre of Memory, as well as the many other corporates who are honouring Mandela’s legacy this Mandela Day, by packaging meals for vulnerable children.
“This global event is the first of its kind in which we use Sun International’s facilities to get corporate South Africa to volunteer their time to package nutritious meals for children.
“We challenge corporate South Africa to get on board and make this a reality with the rest of the world.”
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