When Chefs with Compassion was founded in May 2020, restaurants, hotels and cooking schools were unable to trade, and many caring and compassionate kitchens opened their hearts and switched on their stoves to cook for beneficiary organisations that registered with Chefs with Compassion.
As the lockdown restrictions eased, their focus moved to reviving their businesses, and the cooking baton was transferred to the beneficiary organisations, who became both kitchen and beneficiary.
Many are soup kitchens with years of experience feeding their own local communities, while others are community cooks using their own premises to cook and feed their neighbours.
Today, almost 30 organisations collect produce from the Chefs with Compassion sharehouse, some to cook and distribute meals, others to distribute to a number of smaller organisations within their communities who provide meals on a weekly basis, and others to provide a combination of cooked meals and food parcels to their communities.
In this way, our fresh produce reaches smaller organisations and soup kitchens that cannot access other forms of sponsorship and extends Chefs with Compassion’s reach right across Gauteng.
