STREET HUNGER - STATISTICS IN PENINSULA -Shortall of approx 20,000 Meals monthly for approximately 250 people (aside from individual once off public efforts)
Counciller Simon Liell Cock told us last meeting in a meeting in FIsh hoek 2018  that about  10,000 people are considered ot be living on the street in the capetown so we might surmise that very roughly around 800,000 meals may be being skipped over the spread of Capetown

(statistics are approximated only based on dialogue with outreaches, the haven kalk bay and churches)
From deductions shown  below there seems ot be a shortfall of approx 20,040 meals over a monthly period in the simonstown , fish hoek and muizenburg area.(includes people coming fomr ocain view lavender not working there or other problem,sas wel as poeple living on the street )

22500 monthly meals needed for 250 people
300 meals from PSC Food packs +haven tickets
840 meals from fish hoek 6 outreaches
24 meals from outreaches per month
35 meals from average people fed in each
420 meals from simonstown 3 outreaches 21 outreaches per month 35 average people fed in each
900 muizenburg car guards
90 haven tickets

20,040 Approx Shortfall of meals per month. So how much of this shortfall in meals is the public  provising and is that really possible?

If we use up our current  budget R900+ ) 43 people from our HAVEN TICKETS and FOOD PACKS project  could have enough morvite for  1 week (one meal a day )

• The average time for us to find this amount of money takes several months
• So if we spend it all now for several months we wont be able to to feed anyone for several months.
• There are approximately 300 people living on the street in the peninsula
• There are about 3 meals a week from outreaches in simonstown
• There are about 6 meals a week from outreaches in fish hoek but numbers are soaring and the small outreaches one can count on one hand  can hardly cope
• Approximately 10 people make money from car guarding to buy food out of about 50 in muizenburg (no regular weekly outreaches)
• Use of haven food tickets by (especially) older people on the street in Muizenburg and simonstown is mostly Inaccessible due to distance or transport costs so we transport muizenburg people 3-4 at time by car when we can

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” James 2:14-18 ESV

We need to go beyond politics and blame.  Hunger alleviation, when every year 10 million people die from hunger or chronic malnutrition is simple matter of the heart and body. As in thevideo below its clear how this comes about.It really is simply poverty.

The Buddha said “hunger is the worst kind of illness” (Dhammapada 203). He also declared: “If people knew the results of giving, they wouldn’t eat without having shared their meal with others” (Itivuttaka 26).

It is reported in a hadith that Prophet Muhammad said, “Feed the hungry, visit the sick, and set free the captives." Islam advocates feeding the hungry, regardless of race, religion or background. It is such an important part of the religion that Prophet Muhammad said a person is not really a Muslim if he goes to bed satiated while his neighbor goes hungry.

• 5- 10 km ( is a long way to wak to a shelterfrom muizenburg to kalk bay  for one meal every day even if we could distribute enough Haven tickets (those we do we check if used and there is feedback that some are but poeple keep them for emergencies and are always only to eager to have just 1 * R10 meal ticket)
  
• The haven understandably is not geared to provide more than about 3 extra meals and needs advance warning before 12.30 or 4.30 each day for meals -
  
• The haven is willing to make special larger meals but these have to be organised beforehand and we don’t have transport costs to get 20 people there from either simonstown or Muizenburg
  
•  The shelter in simonstown Happy Valley does not provide food to people on the street (by tickets or any other means) .
  
• Those who have addiction issues have no transport money to get to outreach rehabs   ( AA / Narcotics anonymous groups could not cater for the amount of poeple but without food support, having street hunger issues noone can successfully utilise any rehab -generally Matrix city capetown rehab caters for poeple with homes and few shelter people as shelters do not consdier themselves rehabs and have only smallest allocations for those undergoing rehab )
  
• Those would like to work for food voucher at U turn in claremont do not have the transport to get there unless they beg or do car guarding which is a contradiction because the time that takes precludes even travelling there.