Redhill Literacy & Food Project was formed to help the children of Redhill to improve their levels of literacy. Since then the project has extended its help to the adults in Redhill, again to help improve their levels of education. We started a feeding initiative in 2014 as we realised that trying to teach children when they are hungry and undernourished is difficult. In 2014, Buyiswa Ponti, the founder of Redhill Literacy and Food Project, won South African Leadership Award for this initiative.
Today we feed about 450 kids, 5 days a week. Every year we aim to fundraise for a Christmas Party for the children.
As you can see Redhill is classified as an informal settlement. It is a very deprived and poor community. The nature of an informal settlement is it’s a temporary area, no brick houses and no tarmac roads. It grows incrementally every year. Because of it's remote location, it's very hard for the people to get to work and home and for the children to get to school and home, as they rely on 1-2 taxis and buses a day.