Imtiaz Sooliman – The soup kitchens are getting bigger and demand keeps growing Gift of the Givers

Imtiaz Sooliman
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The speaker describes the struggles of the food industry during COVID-19, including the lack of support from producers and the high demand for food parcels and supplies. The food industry has experienced a drastic decline in population, leading to a decrease in food supplies and a rise in hunger. The speaker emphasizes the importance of protecting workers and protecting the environment while acknowledging the challenges faced by the industry.

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			John, the draft has been from 2015
		
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			right? Our daily intervention
started last year in 2019
		
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			when the first calls for support
came, the draft was there, but the
		
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			first calls for support came in
2019 last year, when we started
		
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			drilling Makanda, grand style, you
know, we put in 15 bones there.
		
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			And from there, it started
escalating. From bones. People
		
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			wanted food parcels. They wanted
feeding their centers. They wanted
		
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			supplies for soup kitchens. People
wanted fodder for the animals.
		
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			Farmers, farm workers wanted food
parcels, and farmers wanted two
		
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			parcels of them and their
families. And when they reached
		
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			that stage, we realized that this
is critical, right? But it was
		
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			still and 2020
		
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			when we got involved with covid
19, I didn't know. And we got to
		
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			Eastern Cape, the real hosing
around end of June, beginning of
		
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			July, when we delivered to a place
called petty, right there. Now
		
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			again, that place when they went
to petty, when my teens came up
		
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			during the moment we walked in,
the lady told us, look, we've
		
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			received 1010, four parcels,
there's 1000s of families here.
		
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			That's all they received from the
beginning of lockdown, right? And
		
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			then when we came out the food
parcels, she and she said, Look,
		
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			thank you very much for this food
parcel. But let me tell you
		
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			something. My children and people
of this area have been surviving
		
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			on plants. They can tell you the
taste of every plant in the area,
		
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			right? Then, when antennas went on
to see this is something drastic,
		
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			and the after we could we got
information. And then there's
		
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			people who can terrified people
eating cats and dogs. Then they're
		
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			eating tortoises, eating lizards
and eating and a frogs. Two weeks
		
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			ago, this isn't frogs, and many of
the kids are catching this to eat.
		
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			And then you realize how critical
the situation is in the hunger
		
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			when you go to the feeding centers
that we set up or support people,
		
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			you find hundreds of children
coming. You see the state the way
		
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			they look from nutritional point
of view. They barefooted, their
		
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			clothes are torn, their ethical
situation, but they come very
		
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			peacefully, dignified, gratefully,
taking a boreal food in one way
		
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			the last few weeks, another
phenomenon has come across, not
		
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			touching anymore. It's even adults
coming, and the soup kitchens are
		
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			getting bigger and longer, and
more and more people are coming.
		
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			And I think as economy bites and
more people lose their jobs, and
		
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			you know, and the short time,
they're just low and more hungry
		
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			people all the time, news experts
and mad as
		
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			where things stand. What you need
to know drive home with John
		
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