Central SA
Meals on Wheels to cycle 1,500km to raise awareness─── ZENANDE MPAME 09:52 Wed, 29 Jan 2025
The Meals on Wheels cycle tour aims to raise awareness and mobilise support to provide nutritious meals to those in need, including vulnerable children, the elderly, and people living in poverty.
The Extreme Cycle 4 Hunger tour is in its 9th year. The team will leave Johannesburg on Tuesday, 25 February on a 1,500km-trip and plan to reach Cape Town on Friday, 7 March.
The cycle tour will stop at ten beneficiaries along its route, including Meals on Wheels kitchens, schools for disabled children, and old age homes.
“In Kimberley, we will be doing something special to uplift the community of young boys. We’ll be working with a school from Bloemfontein to bring hope to these boys, we can’t divulge more information as it is a surprise,” said Meals on Wheels national programmes and marketing director Gershon Naidoo.
“We will also be stopping in Klerksdorp, where an elderly woman took 20 orphans into her home. We will help her with the children and give her food.”
He said Meals on Wheels community services are the first step to giving hope so that people can go and do something better. The organisation has 181 kitchens nationwide and feeds up to a quarter of a million people daily.
The mission of the organisation is to combat hunger by delivering nutritious meals to those in need, improving health by promoting healthy eating habits and empowering people by building strong and resilient communities.
The route has been planned to include smaller towns where hunger and poverty are rife, so “beneficiaries were chosen from these small towns to bring hope to them and to show them that people from big cities actually care,” said Naidoo.
“The route was also chosen because the law … prohibits us from cycling on the national roads.”
The tour may be followed on their social media platforms. Send an email to learn how to support Meals on Wheels.
