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Eastern Cape woman’s soup kitchen gives more than warm meals

Nodumo Mashiyane cooks, out of her own pocket, for elderly residents and orphans in Ngqele village, Middledrift

Nodumo Mashiyane makes warm meals for elderly residents and orphans in Ngqele village, Middledrift. Here she is with 78-year-old Thandekile Matha who relies on Mashiyane’s soup kitchen, so he doesn’t have to take his chronic medication on an empty stomach. Photos: Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
An unusual spate of robberies around Ngqele, Middledrift in the Eastern Cape led 62-year-old Nodumo Mashiyane to start a soup kitchen in her village. Mashiyane said she asked around and discovered that there was a hunger crisis in her community, and started making meals out of her own pocket in 2021.
“Most of the things being stolen were food,” she said.
It appeared that many of those who had been caught stealing food came from child-headed households…

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