{"id":45244,"date":"2024-08-08T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/initiative-feeds-up-to-800-bin-pickers-a-week-20240805\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:48:42","slug":"initiative-feeds-up-to-800-bin-pickers-a-week-20240805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/initiative-feeds-up-to-800-bin-pickers-a-week-20240805\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiative feeds up to 800 bin pickers a week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Kenneth and Heather Felix founded Bin Pickers Ministries, a non-profit organisation in Lotus River, to feed around 800 people weekly. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What began as offering coffee and sandwiches to a single bin picker has grown into a community-wide initiative supported by NGOs and local residents. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The couple also educates bin pickers on maintaining cleanliness and has seen positive changes in the neighbourhood.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A passion project that started feeding one bin picker during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 has grown to provide warm meals to around 800 people per week in Lotus River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Kenneth Felix (72) witnessed a bin picker rummaging through the garbage on a cold morning, he offered her a cup of coffee and a sandwich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His wife Heather (67) recalled that day: \u201cA week before lockdown, my husband took me to work. He was home and retired and enjoying a cup of coffee outside when he noticed a lady scratching in the bin,\u201d she said. \u201cHe asked if she had eaten anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenneth noted that the woman wore soccer boots, which prompted him to find a decent pair of takkies. \u201cI had a pair of takkies which we gave her and from that day, we would hand out coffee and sandwiches to her and other bin pickers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pensioners have since founded the Bin Pickers Ministries, a non-profit organisation (NPO), to help feed the many hungry bin pickers in their area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat started off feeding four to five people grew to 25 people and 40 people. Four years later, we are still doing it but not from our house any longer because residents complained about the noise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hungry\">Hungry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Her husband Kenneth said they realised the real hunger and need for food in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Blockquote\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_be978ffc\">\n<div class=\"text\">\u201cPeople are hungry, so we now have three stops in Lotus River where we hand out bread, coffee, pap and soup,\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>said Kenneth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the initiative was started out of their pockets, using their pension funds, NGOs have stepped in which has allowed the couple to reach more people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe always paid out of our pocket but we met a woman from the Ray of Love non-government organisation (NGO) who came on board to help us with bread rolls and donations,\u201d said Kenneth. \u201cRay of Love has been very good to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the help of the NPO, NGOs and community members the couple is able to feed up to 800 people a week. \u201cWhen we first started, a couple in the neighbourhood heard about us and offered to make soup every Tuesday morning, up to today they kept their promise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenneth added that they have used the opportunity to educate bin pickers, to leave the area neat after picking through a bin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first thing we did with the bin pickers was to educate them. 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