Tiger Brands launches Mandela Day 2014 food security initiative

As the Nelson Mandela Foundation's pioneering food security partner, Tiger Brands aims to contribute towards the eradication of food insecurity that affects learners and sustain them during the long school holidays. The food parcel project forms part of a broader food security focus where 12 million daily meals are fed to beneficiaries on an annual basis while 107,000 food parcels are distributed to the disadvantaged members of our communities per year.

The Department of Education runs the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) that provides learners with a nutritious lunch while the Tiger Brands Foundation complements the NSNP by feeding 39,350 learners in 62 non-fee paying schools with its in-school breakfast feeding programme to date. Since December 2012, over 46,000 food parcels have been distributed thus far by Tiger Brands through the Holiday Food Parcel Project. The National Development Plan (NDP) promotes Public Private Partnerships that help to build a better South Africa and Tiger Brands, with its partners, aligns to the NDP's call to improve food security.

"This project is part of our drive to tackle food insecurity in a sustainable and impactful manner," says Alex Mathole, Group Executive: Regulatory and Corporate Affairs at Tiger Brands.

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people. - Nelson Mandela