Lions committed to the community
“The Lions Club understands the hunger and food crisis in our communities. That’s why we started an initiative to collect soup products for a nutritious winter meal,” says the Alte Feste Lions Club.The charity recently positioned itself at Metro and Super Spar in Windhoek to collect packs of rice, pasta, peas, beans, soup mixes and lentils from the public to support their hunger project.
“As part of our environmental and recycling initiative, we have also used jars and filled them with soup products for distribution to schools and retirement homes,” the club says.
With the food collected, Lions donated 100 jars filled with dry soup ingredients to the SPES Charity Kindergarten in Hakahana, which has 71 children and five teachers. Each jar feeds a family of four.
Furthermore, an old age home, which has 23 living units for pensioners, received a gift basket with soup, rice and pasta products. A preschool and day care centre in Havana, which feeds 130 children, also received large quantities of soup, rice and pasta products. Another preschool of 48 children also received soup, rice and pasta products and a jar filled with dry soup ingredients for each child.
Additionally, the Lions Alte Feste supplied the Eros girls' school with 384 sanitary packages. “We've also provided the school with ten toilet buckets for disposing of used sanitary napkins.”
The school has 300 students and is in urgent need of toiletries, which the club hopes the public will also help with.