Pick-ups

We make other trips on Tuesdays - there are 3 food pick-ups, when "wastage" is collected from 3 different supermarkets. Cratefuls of out-of-date fruit, veg & bakery are loaded into the bakkie to supplement the monthly shop. We also got to transport the cook, Rowayda, & her 7 trolleyfuls of rice, sugar, lentils, milk, oats, salt, flour, cleaning materials........all the staples. On Wednesday mornings, the food not needed by BU is taken out to Langa, one of the nearby townships, for distribution. The bakkie's arrival there is greeted by hordes of little children. Then on Sundays, there is a pick-up of bread, croissants & Danish pastries from a hotel near Greenpoint Market, which provides lunch for members of the "family" manning the MeKasi stall & supper at home later. There is also a soup run on Thursday evenings, where the homeless in Observatory & the city centre can get bread & hot soup (ladled into litre plastic "ginger" bottles with the tops cut off). The street children are not in evidence when we go out on the soup run - they usually hide up at night to try & keep safe, under bridges, on a ledge at Woolworth's, wherever they can.............