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Safety4Kids, Veggies4Kids, Water Safety4Kids and Feed-a-Child.

Supporting children through practical safety resources, food gardens, water safety awareness and nutritious meals.

Nutritious meals

Feed-a-Child

Feed-a-Child is nutritious meals for children. The breakfasts are powered by Big Five Foods products: fortified porridges, soya mince, one-pot meals and soups made for households, schools and catering. When a kitchen needs the larger pack, Big Five Foods also makes 5kg institutional packs. The foundation has published a fortified breakfast for children aged 2 to 5 in the early childhood development centres it supports.

Meals achieved
40 700
Target
100 000
Sent to Gauteng
2 700

2 700 fortified meals were sent from Ballito to Johannesburg, in support of Rise and Restore Project NPC, Tshushu Foundation and OnStyle.

Feed-a-Child poster: 40,700 meals achieved, target 100,000 meals, with photographs of young children eating and receiving food. Line: Nourishing children. Building brighter futures.
Feed-a-Child, as the foundation published it: 40,700 meals achieved, toward 100,000.
Poster: 2,700 meals, with love from Ballito all the way to Gauteng, showing sacks of instant maize porridge.
2,700 fortified meals sent from Ballito to Gauteng.
Feed-a-Child poster: Big hopes. Brighter futures. Thank you, Ballito. Photographs of children eating and holding food parcels.
Feed-a-Child. Big hopes. Brighter futures. Thank you, Ballito.

Powered by Big Five Foods

Product names below are the ranges published by Big Five Foods. Flavour names are kept as they are. Prices, pack changes and availability sit on their page, not here.

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Breakfast that builds

Fortified porridges

High-protein, vitamin-enriched instant porridges for children and families, made with locally grown South African maize. They carry essential minerals, B-vitamins, fibre, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and iron.

  • Original
  • Chocolate
  • Banana
  • Strawberry

Protein that stretches every pot

Soya mince

Plant-based protein mince for households, catering and feeding schemes.

  • Rich Beef
  • Chilli Beef
  • Beef & Onion
  • Mutton

A complete plate in one pack

One-pot meals

Ready-to-cook meals. A 1kg pack prepares about 4kg — about 20 servings of 200g — in about 20 minutes.

  • Chicken
  • Beef
  • Chilli Beef
  • Chakalaka

Warmth in a bowl

Soups

Fortified instant soup thickeners in familiar South African flavours, supporting local maize farmers.

  • Chicken
  • Brown Onion
  • Oxtail
  • Minestrone

5kg packs for school kitchens

NSNP institutional packs

Approved by the National Department of Basic Education for the National School Nutrition Programme. Approval means these packs may be used on NSNP menus. It is not a tender awarded to Restore Africa Foundation. Feed-a-Child serves children aged 2 to 5 in ECD centres.

  • Enriched Porridge 5kg
  • Beef Soya Mince 5kg
  • One-Pot Chicken Biryani Mix 5kg

Big Five Foods states that its products are Halaal certified by the South African National Halaal Authority (SANHA), and that they are manufactured and packed in an FSSC 22000 Version 6 certified facility in South Africa. Those certificates belong to the manufacturer. They are not certificates of this foundation.

Food orders and deliveries for the foundation are managed on SupplierAdvisor® (opens in a new tab). How donors can follow that.

Safety4Kids, Veggies4Kids and Water Safety4Kids

Safety4Kids

Safety4Kids supports children with practical safety resources. The foundation has published support for 54 early childhood development centres across KwaDukuza and oThongathi.

54

ECD centres supported

Veggies4Kids

Veggies4Kids is food gardens for children. Living Earth sponsors the compost. The gardens started at Qoqisizwe Crèche in eMagwaveni.

Water Safety4Kids

Water Safety4Kids is water safety awareness for children, run with A Heart to Help Foundation.

Poster: Help prevent childhood stunting. 28.8 percent, nearly 1 in 3 South African children under five, from the National Food and Nutrition Security Survey, reported 2024. Contact Eduard Louw on 061 145 3512.
The foundation’s stunting poster. It cites 28.8% from the National Food and Nutrition Security Survey, reported 2024, and names Eduard Louw as the contact.

Why a breakfast matters

The foundation cites childhood stunting of 29% among children under five in the UNICEF 2024 South Africa report. Its own poster cites 28.8% — nearly 1 in 3 south african children under five — from the National Food and Nutrition Security Survey, reported 2024.

Chronic undernutrition can harm growth, brain development and learning. Feed-a-Child answers that with a fortified breakfast at the ages of 2–5, in the ECD centres the foundation supports.

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