Helping orphans with food
2007-08-16
THERE is something heartwrenching about seeing little children, some as young as three years old standing, in a queue barefoot in the mud, holding their cups and slices of bread high above their heads so that the stray dogs can’t reach them.
Yet, this is a scene not unfamiliar to many who help at orphanages with soup kitchens.
Recently, 26 volunteers from MannaRelief, an international non-profit organisation based in the USA, visited seven orphanages in the Paarl/Wellington area.
MannaRelief, founded in 1999, supply essential glyconutrition to orphans and children with critical health needs.
Assisting in providing nutritional supplements to orphans on every continent MannaRelief has reached 56 000 orphans in 332 orphanages in 78 countries.
Glyconutriets worth R7 million were distributed to the different orphanages while R70 000 worth of glyconutrients were distributed in the Wellington/Paarl area alone.
Young children were running around in great excitement looking at the Americans wide eyed and curious as they got from the bus.
It was soup day and for most of them it will be their only nutritious meal for the week even though they have to fight the stray dogs - until they get soup again.
The volunteers handed the glyconutrients over to the caretakers and educated them on how the product works and the dosages required for the glyconutrients to work effectively.
“The future of the world depends upon the children, yet the children’s future depends upon us”.
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