Top chefs lend a hand

TANJA BAUSE THE Kalahari Sands Hotel & Casino and Bethesda Gospel Ministries yesterday started serving soup to pensioners who queue at the Katutura post office to collect their pensions.

Pensioners and people collecting disability and orphan’s grants there will receive soup for the next two days, and in future every month. Hotel spokesperson Bettina Gouws says the hotel’s kitchen will cook 40 litres of soup for needy people every week.It will be distributed on a rotation basis to the elderly, street children and other needy people at various locations, so that everybody gets a hot meal at least once a month.Gouws appealed to other companies to join the initiative so that the programme can be expanded.Fruit and Veg City has already joined in by donating vegetables.When The Namibian visited the Katutura post off-ice yesterday, about 200 elderly and disabled people were standing in line – some of them from as early as 04h00.There are no toilet facilities, drinking water, seats or roofs for protection against the sun and rain at the Katutura post office.”If you dare to go into the riverbed to relieve yourself, you lose your place in line and have to wait even longer,” an elderly man said.Hotel spokesperson Bettina Gouws says the hotel’s kitchen will cook 40 litres of soup for needy people every week.It will be distributed on a rotation basis to the elderly, street children and other needy people at various locations, so that everybody gets a hot meal at least once a month.Gouws appealed to other companies to join the initiative so that the programme can be expanded.Fruit and Veg City has already joined in by donating vegetables.When The Namibian visited the Katutura post off-ice yesterday, about 200 elderly and disabled people were standing in line – some of them from as early as 04h00.There are no toilet facilities, drinking water, seats or roofs for protection against the sun and rain at the Katutura post office.”If you dare to go into the riverbed to relieve yourself, you lose your place in line and have to wait even longer,” an elderly man said.