City calls on registered NPOs and PBOs to apply for humanitarian food relief services

20 August 2020

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds if not thousands of vulnerable communities continue to be adversely affected.  The City’s Urban Management Directorate has secured R25 million for food relief during the 2020/2021 financial year. With this in mind, the City of Cape Town’s Urban Management Directorate is calling on registered NPOs and PBOs within the municipal boundaries of the City of Cape Town to apply to render food relief services to these beneficiaries.

‘Registered NPOs and PBOs must have experience in the preparation and distribution of cooked meals as well as the distribution of raw food products and the direct supervision of community-based organisations for the preparation and the distribution of cooked meals.

 ‘They should have at least three months’ experience operating soup or food kitchens and should be able to provide nutritional well-balanced meals to vulnerable communities and beneficiaries. A track record of their successful operations and details of the communities or beneficiary groups that they previously served is also a requirement,’ said Alderman Twigg, Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Management.

All applicants are requested to apply via email at admin.HRP@capetown.gov.za as hard copies are no longer permitted.  The application form and the business and project plan can also be accessed via www.capetown.gov.za/HumanitarianRelief

All enquiries are to be directed in writing to admin.HRP@capetown.gov.za. Subsequently, all applications and supporting documentation must also be returned to admin.HRP@capetown.gov.za on or before 16:00 on 3 September 2020.

‘The organisations that are selected will be required to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the City and must comply with the stipulated monitoring and reporting requirements.

‘As a councillor, I will always lobby for the most vulnerable communities and the City’s efforts through the rendering of food relief services to those that have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is an ideal opportunity to ensure that entire families are fed and nourished.  The City, through the Urban Management Directorate, is doing all it can to capacitate neighbourhood soup kitchens to feed hundreds of residents in their various communities,’ said Alderman Twigg.

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City of Cape Town, Media Office