DSD to increase reach in nutritional relief during Covid19 Pandemic
6 April 2020
The Department of Social Development (DSD) has made an additional R35 million available for food relief programmes from Provincial Treasury allocations, to widen our existing nutritional safety net to reach an extra estimated 215 520 beneficiaries with cooked meals and food parcels, as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic. This is over and above its existing daily provision of food to approximately 100 000 people.
The 50 000 extra food parcels, which will support an average household for one month, will be distributed to households who meet the following qualifying criteria:
Households affected by COVID-19 infections in the following instances:
A member/s of the family who tested positive for the virus and are in isolation in their homes.