Mobile distribution of school uniforms through Meals on Wheels
28 May 2026 | Shannen Harte
As we have mentioned in our previous reports, the Meals on Wheels Programme has enabled us to identify beneficiaries in further need of our support beyond our feeding scheme. We joined up with our community care givers and went through the list of those children we identified as most destitute who are in further need of support. With the research we have done and by identifying specific households, we decided to come up with a plan to provide these children with what we call a "necessity pack" through our Meals on Wheels distribution routes. We decided to come up with a mobile distribution strategy to get these necessities directly to the children in the most efficient way possible. Bearing in mind that when the care givers do home visits it takes a lot of time to go from home to home on foot.
With the support of our Meals on Wheels team, we were able to put together the packs and distribute them to those beneficiaries on our list while doing our routine trips out to the schools. This was perfect as a central meeting point as the children are all in one place at the same time, making it a lot more efficient to distribute. We were able to distribute 220 necessity packs in the month of January 2026 in time for a new school year.
