UR Covid: Bhambayi Soup Machines

Today, after almost a year of delivering soup to the Meals on Wheels kitchen in Bhambayi, the soup ran dry. Momentarily. Our amazing soup machine Brenda Andriés who, at the moment, is singlehandedly keeping the Tuesday soup mission alive, was unable to provide her relentlessly dependable contribution this afternoon. Hopefully Brenda will be back in the saddle next week.

Together with Brenda and the other Ubuntu Army soup machines, the small contribution that we have made in delivering soup every Tuesday afternoon, and every Friday during level 4 and 5 lockdown in 2020, has been gratefully received by the Bhambayi community and the humble members of the Meals on Wheels kitchen staff. However, In order to continue serving this community, we all need to play a role.

Whether you cook the soup, finance the soup, or help us deliver the soup on a Tuesday afternoon, this is the nature of the challenge we all face. On a local and global level. It is the coal face of inequality and vulnerability. Exaggerated by Covid. It is a problem that belongs to us, and in Bhambayi, we have the opportunity to face it, and address it. This soup kitchen is the fight.

We are all tired, exhausted by requests, speculations, predictions and declarations, but in Bhambayi, the problem is quite simple. People are hungry and we all have the power, and the responsibility, to help feed them.