The e’Pap Children’s Feeding Project (our main beneficiary) told about the positive impact of e’Pap on an intiative for young football players in their area:
“Strikers FC Development Academy have gratefully been receiving donations of e’Pap since May 2023…we have boys between 8 and 17 years of age, descend on Lorie Park to play soccer. All boys travel by foot from townships around the Knysna area – most of them from Hornlea, Nekkies, Concordia and White Location – a 10-12km round trip.
Volunteers make sure the boys have clean water, cordial juice, a piece of fruit and prepare e’Pap for the boys to have at the end of training (or before if they need it). Some boys will not have eaten since the morning, some not at all.
As you can imagine, this is a little challenging to do on a soccer pitch, but we have great camping tables, equipment etc and created ingenious methods, such as using a tall tub, paint mixer and drill to mix the powder to be a very smooth texture! The boys love it and often come over for a quick go with the mixing. The process of soccer training, feeding of e’Pap and the volunteers have created a family environment for the boys, some of whom have very difficult home lives.”
