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Danny Diliberto
Danny and the Ladles of Love Team ❤️
Today brings with it bittersweet emotions as it is EARTH DAY, which we embrace with even greater resolve, as our intention is to grow the impact of our food security and nutrition programmes, exponentially.
Let’s face the reality that our planet is in crisis this Earth Day. Human activities have pushed global temperatures up by 1.1°C, triggering extreme weather events, collapsing biodiversity, and choking our oceans with plastic. The cost to Africa and South Africa is substantial, with Africa needing $1.3 trillion annually to address climate challenges. In South Africa, the JETIP plan aims to mobilize $13.5 billion for renewable energy and sustainable development.
The facts are frightening and mind boggling, at Ladles of Love, we are taking action daily by focusing on OUR WHY. We are delivering nutrition brilliantly to 14,500 preschool children and their teachers with healthy meals daily and promoting food security and systems.
Did you know? On World Food Day in 2021 we launched our Feed the Soil programme endeavouring to reduce food waste going from household to landfill. We created an ecosystem facilitating householders dropping off their food waste in buckets at our pop-up markets, then sending the waste for composting and once nutrient rich ready, we delivered bags to urban farmers. We closed the loop by buying their fresh produce and selling it at our weekly Feed the Soil Pop-Up Markets.
In 2024, seeing the fresh produce being produced by our urban farmers, we realised that these delicious, nutrient rich veggies needed to feed the small children in community preschools via our nutrition programme, as well as sold at our pop-up markets.
Earth Day gives us reason to celebrate the sheer magnitude of what we have managed to achieve to date and here are the statistics to back up the impact of our Feed the Soil programme.
