For the past 52 years, Feed the Babies Fund – a registered KwaZulu-Natal non-profit – has worked to eliminate malnutrition and promote good health in babies.

By distributing food and supplements the organisation aims to ensure the normal development of children’s brains during the time from birth to six years old. Malnutrition prevents the brain from developing as it should – and that means a malnourished child will never cope with a normal education. In later life, these adults won’t be able to support a family of their own – and the end result is widespread poverty, unemployment and disease.

Feed the Babies Fund provides cereal and other foodstuffs to 129 crèches in the informal settlements, townships and rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal, feeding 6000 children daily. Besides food, Feed the Babies Fund also distributes clothing, blankets, educational items, toys, medicines – and more – to the crèches.

Whilst the cereal which is distributed is bought from cash donations, all other items are donated. The cost to feed a child for a whole month is approximately R30. For more information visit www.feedthebabiesfund.org.za .

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