Covid-19 Lockdown

The Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa unleashed a range of unintended consequences particularly concerning food security in SA. People’s livelihoods were disrupted and unemployment soared, leaving those living from hand to mouth unable to feed themselves or their families.

Government school feeding schemes were stopped, leaving 9 million children without a daily meal – sometimes their only meal.

Boikanyo the Dion Herson Foundation partnered up with NGOs and corporates in the ‘Save a Soul’ Project in which we sent e’Pap (high energy porridge which contains so much of the daily nutritional requirement) to deep rural communities who were starving.

We prioritised child and grandmother headed households, and those without SA birth certificates. We provided enough e’Pap to sustain more than 110 000 children under the age of 6 countrywide, each for 30 days. In addition we provided other forms of humanitarian relief.