Members of the public can volunteer to pack dry foods for cooks to prepare children’s daily hot meals and bread, called love buckets.
Food relief organisation Ladles of Love are aiming to break another world record on Mandela Day, Thursday July 18 – the largest number of volunteers paying to spend 67 minutes on Mandela Day in service to grow children in need.
Those who buy tickets commit to spending 67 minutes in active service making items to help nurture and grow little ones at pre-school centres and shelters.
Ladles of Love hopes to raise R5 million for food to nourish more than 5 500 children in impoverished communities.
To book, visit webtickets.co.za and select ticket options for time slots at the V&A Waterfront’s Lookout venue.
Volunteering activities to choose from include sandwich-making; packing dry foods for cooks to prepare children’s daily hot meals and bread; creating and collating books or decorating wall art to help develop children’s minds and imaginations; crafting and decorating toys for fine-motor skills development and wellness of small children; sorting and filling boxes with food cans and essential cooking ingredients; creating edible garden kits ready to educate, grow and feed children in need.
Ladles of Love founder and CEO, Danny Diliberto, said: “I appeal to you as global citizens to join us in creating a better world for our children, these are our future leaders and they need our help to be the best they can be.
“Let’s roll up our sleeves and be the change we want to see in our world by paying to spend 67 minutes in service to these little ones and enable them grow as they should.”
As a public benefit organisation, Ladles of Love is qualified to issue Section 18A tax certificates to all individuals and companies contributing to this campaign as every ticket of R200 is deemed a donation and will provide 40 meals for a child in need.
For more information visit LadlesofLove.org.za or follow them on social media.
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