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Nationwide hunger crisis in SA & lock down has exacerbated the need`

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Guest : Lorenzo Davids | CEO at Community Chest WC |

From Facebook:
On the 25 May, I by mistake, gave my cellphone number out on air during an interview
on Food Relief on a national radio station.
I could not believe what happened next. Within minutes I had hundreds of WhatsApp
and SMS messages. Within the first 30 minutes I had over 1000 messages.
The messages now total several thousand.
Today, it is still going on.
Each day I get hundreds of messages.
I am unable to respond to all of the messages. My colleagues have jumped in to try to
call people back. Every day it continues.
I get called early morning, late at night.
To those people we have not called back as yet: I apologize. Its literally thousands. To
those who, with full understanding, have become abusive and insulting, I understand
that as well. Given what insight this has given me into the national hunger crisis, I
accept you need to be angry and perhaps even insulting. I am not upset. I wish I can
reach out to everyone of you.

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