Engen Renews Its Food Forward SA Fuel Sponsorship
Engen Renews Its Food Forward SA Fuel Sponsorship. Engen has renewed their fuel sponsorship partnership with FoodForward SA to the amount of R2 million. The African-based energy group announced this generous support on 18 July, International Mandela Day, a day that symbolises the global pledging of action for making the world a better place.
Engen first partnered with FoodForward SA during the devastating COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which was the catalyst for putting in motion its accelerated scaling-up plan to reach vulnerable communities in all nine provinces. Engen’s funding helped FoodFoward SA to rapidly scale its operations during a very critical time.
Engen’s fuel support continues to be a valuable resource, enabling the organization’s trucks to traverse the length and breadth of South Africa to reach vulnerable communities. Last year alone, thanks to the fuel sponsorship, the trucks could travel over half a million kilometres to take nutritious food supplies to remote rural villages. The support from Engen has been a key enabler of FoodFoward’s mobile rural depot (MRD) Programme in particular, its initiative which addresses rural food insecurity.
“When we work together towards common goals, we have the power to achieve them. We are grateful to Engen for their ongoing generosity and partnership over the years and for caring enough to make a real difference. Together we can combat food insecurity, and we look forward to yet another fuelled partnership.” the company said.
Established in 2009 to address widespread hunger in South Africa, FoodForward SA connects a world of excess to a world of need by recovering quality edible surplus food from the consumer goods supply chain and distributing it to community organisations that serve the poor. More than 80% of the food recovered is nutritious food. During the 2022/2023 financial year, FoodForward distributed 88 million meals and reached 985,000 people daily through a network of 2,750 beneficiary organisations, across South Africa.
