On the 16th of October, a day globally known as World Food Day, Meals on Wheels, the Department of Education and the Department of Social Development joined forces to feed the hungry at Nasrec, in Johannesburg.The aim of *World Food Day* <http://www.fao.org/world-food-day>is to promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure healthy diets and access for food - for all.
Meals on Wheels Community Services South Africa is a fully-fledged and recognised non-profit organization that believes that hunger is the extreme materialization of poverty and human deprivation therefore mitigate this by feeding the poorest of the poor. On the day, the company fed 10 000 underprivileged people, which wasessentially one of their biggest Cook-a-thons and the biggest group they’ve fed in a day in one Region in their years of operation. The company says about 11 million people in South Africa do not know where their next meal will come from, or when. They distribute food to more than a *210* communities and schools countrywide.
1964, was our first year of operation, Meals on Wheels distributes more than 1.5 Million food packs in a month country wide. The company also runs programmes such as Skills Development, Make-Over Projects and Food Gardens.According to a report by the United Nations’ *Food and Agriculture
Organization* <http://www.fao.org/index_en.htm> on the state of food security, more than 814 million people in developing countries are undernourished. Of these, 204 million live in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa.
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