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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 21 000 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:

 

 
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It couldn't be easier to support your favouite charity, than by getting a MySchool/ MyVillage Card, with ACFS as the beneficiary, and swiping it every time you shop at Woolworths, Reggies and other participating stores. The card won't cost you a cent
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Little girlSix months ago, Talent was so severely malnourished that she was losing her hair.

At 5 years old, this pretty little girl weighed only 9kg ... half the weight she should have been.

Now – thanks to the peanut butter sandwich and a cup of fresh milk she gets at our Meadowlands feeding centre every day – Talent weighs a far healthier 14kg. And her hair is growing back!

And it's people like you who made the difference. [More]

It costs just R125 to care for a child like this for three months. Please will you help save another child today?




Thanks to an extremely generous US$30 000 donation from The Prem Rawat Foundation in Los Angeles, USA, the year got off to a great start for 500 students at Emndeni Senior Secondary School, who will receive a nutritious cooked lunch daily for the next six months. [more ...]

We recently received a stack of thankyou letters from some of the 1 500 children we feed every day at our Meadowlands Centre in Soweto[more ...]

Six of our young girls were given the amazing opportunity to go to India in July, thanks to the Sai Baba group.[more ...]

Snug and warm - thanks to Johannesburg Mini Councillors[more ...]

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