{"id":12479,"date":"2020-10-09T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/vanessa-madito-gives-back-during-lockdown-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:45:35","slug":"breadchallenge-drives-soup-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/breadchallenge-drives-soup-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"#Breadchallenge drives soup kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12479\" class=\"elementor elementor-12479\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f8301c5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f8301c5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41e0aeb7\" data-id=\"41e0aeb7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71622e40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71622e40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Buza Ndebele, a second-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/education-overview\/\">BEd<\/a> student at SPU, started a Facebook and WhatsApp challenge using the #breadchallenge during the national lockdown that turned into a community benefit project aimed at feeding the underprivileged community of Wolmaransstad.<\/p><p>\u201cWe have a lot of impoverished people in Wolmaransstad, I wanted to help my community during this time while I was at home,\u201d says Ndebele.<\/p><p>Ndebele invited his childhood friends who were all home during the COVID-19 pandemic to assist him in starting up a soup kitchen that would feed children from poverty-stricken families, the elderly, and unemployed youth.<\/p><p>\u201cAlthough I grew up in extreme poverty, it was great growing up in Wolmaransstad. Many of our community members cannot reach their full potential due to the underdeveloped city infrastructure that could benefit them to live healthy, productive and fulfilling lives,\u201d said Ndebele. \u201cThis soup kitchen is just the start of my bigger plans to uplift my community,\u201d concludes Ndebele.<\/p><p>Today the #breadchallenge has turned into a Wolmaransstad community benefit project that also collects and distributes clothes for the less fortunate through generous donations from members of the community.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buza Ndebele, a second-year BEd student at SPU, started a Facebook and WhatsApp challenge using the #breadchallenge during the national lockdown that turned into a community benefit project aimed at feeding the underprivileged community of Wolmaransstad. \u201cWe have a lot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/breadchallenge-drives-soup-kitchen\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4,57,180],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-news","category-news","category-spu-student-news","category-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479\/revisions\/12484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12479"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=12479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}