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Sovereign Foods group executive HR, Thuto Maepa, and General Manager: EP Media and Die Burger Oos-Kaap, Tasmia Ismail. Photo: Pro Design Photographers<\/div>\n
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IN celebration of the Uitenhage based poultry producer Sovereign Foods\u2019 70th birthday, various charity organisations and non-governmental organisations are set to benefit from a major community festive meal provision initiative.<\/p>\n

The \u201870 Festive Tables of Hope\u2019 initiative will be jointly undertaken by Sovereign Foods and the Express community newspaper group which includes the UD Express as well as the PE Express.<\/p>\n

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This initiative will provide festive season banquet meals to vulnerable individuals cared for or supported by 70 registered charities and welfare organisations in the metro over December. The beneficiaries will be from around the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, particularly the Uitenhage, Despatch and Port Elizabeth areas.<\/p>\n

UD Express<\/em> readers are invited to nominate beneficiary organisations such as registered NGOs and charities caring for vulnerable communities. The categories include: <\/p>\n

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    Commenting on the initiative, Thuto Maepa, Sovereign Foods group executive HR and chairperson of the company\u2019s CSI committee, said, \u201ccommunity-based organisations caring for the vulnerable are often financially stretched and under resourced. Bleak statistics this year also showed how the vulnerable skip meals, go hungry and suffer from malnutrition. <\/p>\n

    \u201cOur company is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. We have decided to focus on a public feeding initiative through banquet meals this December,\u201d said Maepa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Tasmia Ismail, General Manager: EP Media and Die Burger<\/em> Oos-Kaap, said, \u201cThe festive season is upon us and so it is a time of giving and spreading joy for most of us. At the same time countless families in Nelson Mandela Bay go hungry daily, and more so as we approach year end. <\/p>\n

    \u201cUD Express<\/em> and PE Express together with Sovereign Foods, are proud to be a part of the 70 Festive Tables of Hope 2018.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe will have the privilege of \u2018Laying the Tables\u2019 for 70 vulnerable entities making this initiative the biggest of its kind in the Bay. This year we can feel comforted that more families than before will have a meal on the table,\u201d concluded Ismail.<\/p>\n

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    UD Express<\/em> readers are invited to nominate NGOs that can benefit from the \u201870 Festive Tables of Hope\u2019 initiative.

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    How to nominate<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Send your charity\u2019s name, NPO number, name and contact details of the organisation\u2019s head to express.web@media24.com or comment on this post on our Facebook page. Only registered NGOs with valid and current NPO number will be considered. <\/p>\n

    Closing date is November 22.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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