“Our door-to-door distribution addresses the needs of people who are housebound, the frail, the aged, the sick and those that can't get to the mass distributions and are being left out.”
He said they had refrained from dealing with councillors and ward committees and `had been very “clear and prescriptive” about the distribution, working with activists in a community to identify those in need.
“We call it hand to hand, it's not hand to organisation to candidate, or someone who has an agenda and then to hand. For us it must be hand to hand, come off the truck to the person who receives and that's the way we are going about it,” he said. A recipient in the area said that the food parcels would go a long way as the pension money their parents and grandparents were receiving was not enough
For a local taxi driver, in Nkandla northern KwaZulu-Natal, the food parcels made him and his community feel like they were being noticed. He has not been able to earn a regular income since lockdown regulations affected his work.
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