Charity embarks on creating biggest mosaic out of food cans for Mandela Day

This Mandela day on the 18th of July, the non-profit organization Ladles of Love, has set out to break the Guinness World Record for the world's largest mosaic created entirely out of cans of food. The attempts will take place in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The food cans collected for the mosaic wi…

Nestle Cremora launches Joy of Inclusion campaign

While South Africa was the first country to adopt a constitution that explicitly prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, many trans people have or will experience some sort of discrimination in their lifetime. The trans community often struggle to access health care and face unfair di…

Economic cost of presenteeism in the workplace

Experts say presenteeism - being physically present at work but mentally absent and unproductive, comes at a greater economic cost than absenteeism. In South Africa the cost of mental health-related presenteeism has been estimated at over five-thousand US dollars per employee annually versus about …

MSF calls for urgent humanitarian response in Nigeria's Borno state

An urgent scale up of the humanitarian response is needed to avoid deadly consequences in Nigeria's Borno State. This is according to the global medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders or MSF. Since May, MSF has been witnessing an unprecedented influx of malnourished children to its nutrition ce…

Youth obesity on the rise in South Africa

More than a hundred-and-twenty-million children live with obesity globally and this figure is expected to double by 2030. In South Africa, obesity among youth and adolescents is increasing at an alarming rate of eight-point-two per cent per annum. This is according to research by the University of …

Artist Reggie Khumalo on African tour in support of WFP aid operations

With the numbers of people going hungry rising considerably after the conflict in Ukraine, the World Food Programme, WFP is calling for a step-change in global support for its operations. Self- taught African fine artist, Reggie Khumalo will this month be visiting humanitarian projects of the food …

FAO tackles child labour in coffee industry

World Day Against Child Labour was observed this past Sunday as an awareness event to protect children against labour. The region of Ixil in Guatemala is one of the poorest coffee-growing regions in the world. Low literacy rates and child labor have long plagued the population. However, the Food an…

Africa month wrap

As the continent wraps up Africa month a four-day series of events and activations under the theme "United Colours of Africa is set to take place in Johannesburg South Africa. Some of the activities over the course of the four days will include hybrid business talks, art exhibitions, an African foo…

Hunger and killer diseases threaten Somali children

As droughts continue to hit countries across the Horn of Africa, the United Nations child agency UNICEF, warns of an explosion of child deaths in the region if the world does not act immediately. Somalia is the most severely affected of the countries, with more than a million children suffering fro…

NGOs raise alarm on growing displacement

Conflict and natural disasters drove millions of people from their homes last year, bringing the total number of displaced people to a record high of nearly 60 million, according to a study released by NGOs. Internally displaced people numbered 59.1 million in 2021, nearly half of whom were under 1…