Dear Friends,

WE ARE LIVE!

A big day for us!

The Inani StartWell Factory's official launch. First of its kind in the world as a not-for-profit food factory. In Org van der Wath's words: "The only beneficiaries are the children who so desperately need nutritious food." 

Thank you to everyone who attended and supports this project.
We can not do this without you.

Thank you to our sponsors for the factory launch event:

• InteliGro
• Clover Fonterra Ingredients (Pty) Ltd
• Zakor Packaging 
• Stapelberg Farmers  
  

Our sincere gratitude to all who supports the Inani StartWell Foundation financially or as a volunteer. We appreciate you immensely.

To everyone that wants to get involved... the time is now. Our factory is open and ready for you to utilise. We cannot run this huge project without you!

Click here to get involved!

Panel Discussion on child stunting, non-profit-manufacturing & feeding the most needy in South Africa

Panelists: Org van der Wath, Yolandi van der Wath, Dr Theo Geyser, 

Dr Rethabile Melamu, Austin Cassim

Our main sponsor for the factory launch and opening day, InteliGro sponsored a lunchbox for each attendee.

By receiving a lunchbox with a single Chappie inside as a symbolic gift, the attendees were challenged with the thought:

“What are we prepared to give hungry children in South Africa”. 

Many feeding schemes pride themselves that they can give a meal for less than 50c. Ironically, nowadays a single square of chappies bubble gum costs around 60c.

The message was clear. How do you and I go about the reality of feeding hungry people? During the French Revolution, when being told that her French subjects had no bread, Queen Marie Antoinette supposedly sniffed, “Qu'ils mangent de la brioche”—“Let them eat cake.”  With that callous remark, the queen became a hated symbol of the decadent monarchy and fuelled the revolution that would cause her to (literally) lose her head.

230 years later some are happy to hand out chappies. But not all of us! 

Almost 2000 years prior to this event, Jesus taught his disciples through the parable of the sheep and goats (Matt 25:31-46) how significant an issue this is:

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

At the Inani StartWell Foundation our mission is to make sure that the least will be given the best.

The time is now! Every single day thousands of children are in desperate need of daily nutrients in order to grow and develop to their full potential. We cannot sit and wait for others to help. 

If you want to make a difference in your community, the Village Project is your answer. 

Let's take hands and stop the slow violence of malnutrition. 

Stunting is a condition that arises from prolonged malnutrition and it affects a child’s physical, psychological and brain development. 

According to the findings of the South African Child Gauge 2020: 

'By December 2020, child hunger had increased by 50% in South Africa with 1 in 6 households reporting that children went hungry in the last seven days because there wasn't enough food.

We have to make a difference.