30% of all food produced in South Africa goes to waste, while 14 million people go hungry every day.

FoodForward SA connects a world of excess to a world of need. In partnership with major retailers, farmers and manufacturers, edible surplus food is recovered from the supply chain and redistributed to hundreds of beneficiary organisations nationwide, reaching over 200,000 people every day.  

In the past 10 years FoodForward SA has redistributed enough food to prepare 155 million meals!

It costs just 90c for FoodForward SA to distribute a meal’s worth of food.  That means that for only R50, two people can eat every day for a month. 

To commemorate its 10 year anniversary, South Africa’s largest food redistribution organisation, FoodForward SA, has set a goal of reaching a million people daily within 5 years.

The organisation’s vision is ‘A South Africa without hunger’.

FoodForward SA currently reaches over 250,000 people every day across its national beneficiary organisation network, supported by its logistics and warehouse infrastructure that has the capacity to distribute large volumes of surplus food nationally. 

Scaling up to meet the growth challenge will involve increasing the amount of surplus food they are able to recover as well as increasing the number of beneficiary organisations they serve, while ensuring that the organisation’s infrastructure capacity is adequately expanded to accommodate this ambitious goal.   

Last year FoodForward SA launched its digital platform, FoodShare, which virtually connects beneficiary organisations directly to retail stores and food outlets for the regular collection of surplus food, thus providing greater access to food while reducing infrastructure and logistics costs.

Adequate nutrition is the basis for social development. FoodForward SA uses food as a catalyst for sustainable social change through its beneficiary organisations who provide at least four nutritious meals per week to vulnerable groups. At least 75% of these beneficiary organisations focus on early childhood development, youth development, women’s empowerment and care for orphans and vulnerable children (OVCY).