Today (28 May) is World Hunger Day and all Android smartphone users can get involved in feeding the hungry.
The Lunchbox Fund has launched its philanthropic foodie app, Feedie, a global platform that transforms digital food photos into actual meals for impoverished school children across South Africa.
Each time a Feedie user takes a “food-o-graph” at a participating Feedie restaurant, the restaurant donates R2.50 (the estimated cost of a meal for a child) to the Lunchbox Fund non-profit organisation to help feed disadvantaged and at-risk schoolchildren across South Africa.
Spearheaded by South African born Topaz Page-Green, (Lunchbox Fund Founder and app co-creator) and celebrated local award-winning chef Peter Tempelhoff (executive chef for The Collection by Liz McGrath), Feedie was launched in October 2013. It has rapidly won the support of restaurants across the US, Canada and the UK. It is also available in a number of South African restaurants.
Participating South African restaurants include: The Conservatory at The Cellars-Hohenort; The Greenhouse; Pavilion at the Marine; Seafood at the Marine; Seafood at the Plettenberg; Tashas (11 stores nationally); Knead (nine stores in Western Cape and Gauteng); Olive and Oil (seven stores in KZN); Mondiall; SWAD (two stores in Gauteng); Willoughby’s; Haiku; and Belthazar.
