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Formerly known as the African Children's Feeding Scheme, the ACFS has come a long way since the late Bishop Trevor Huddleston started the original peanut butter sandwich at schools in 1945.

Today, we pursue seven separate but inter-related activities aimed at uplifting and empowering communities in Soweto, Kagiso, Alexandra, Thembisa, Daveyton, Kwa Thema and Tsakane.

We provide 31 500 children with milk and a peanut butter sandwich daily and, whilst this remains our core focus, we also work to promote healthy, contributing citizens who are economically viable and self sufficient, through:

 

 
good nutrtion
 

 

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Little girl

When Phumzile closed her eyes, we feared she might never open them again ... she was so weak from hunger that all she wanted to do was sleep.

Not only her childhood, but her life was slipping away.

But, thanks to the generosity of someone like you, she's slowly recovering at our Malnutrition Rehabilitation Centre. Her weight has increased from 10kg to 11kg and even though there's sill a long way to go ... a child her age should weigh 20kg ... she's beginning to show an interest in life again.

There's really no reason why children should die of malnutrition in South Africa - when R145 is all it takes to put them on the road to better health.

Your gift today makes the difference.

So please, will you help now?





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