South African church gives meals to families, job seekers
PHOTO BY MERVYN PASQUALLE
Feeding families, job seekers - A family trying to enroll their children in school is served a free meal by Victor Dickinson, an elder of the Mitchell's Plain church.
Feeding families, job seekers - A family trying to enroll their children in school is served a free meal by Victor Dickinson, an elder of the Mitchell's Plain church.
Victor Dickinson, elder of the Mitchell’s Plain church, ladles lunch
for a family that had been walking from school to school in the South
African community, near Cape Town, trying to enroll their children.
The church serves free meals, made with food provided by ministries including Breedlove Foods Inc., along the streets of its community twice each week, minister Mervyn Pasqualle said.
Many of the people served stand in South Africa’s blazing heat, hoping to be hired for short-term labor. “The economy is bad and there is no work, so we try to feed the body before we feed the souls,” he said.
Many of the people served stand in South Africa’s blazing heat, hoping to be hired for short-term labor. “The economy is bad and there is no work, so we try to feed the body before we feed the souls,” he said.
From the May 2009 Print Edition.
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