Ladles of Love

Our Story

In five short years, Ladles of Love has gone from feeding 70 meals at our very first soup kitchen, to providing over 300,000 meals every single week.

We started with one small soup kitchen serving soup to the homeless once a week on St. Georges Mall, and we’ve grown to our serving thousands from our HQ kitchen at The Hope Exchange in Roeland Street.

Then the Corona Virus pandemic hit, escalating the number of starving people in need across the country. We had an idea - how can we connect those in need with those who have the capacity to help? Our suburban sandwich drive was born: a city-wide initiative mobilising people to give back from the safety of their own homes.

In a matter of weeks, the Sandwich Drive had rallied families across the Cape to make sandwiches in their homes and over 250,000 sarmies were re-routed into our new, ever-expanding NPO network of beneficiaries. The Sandwich & Essential Groceries Drive is now active in Cape Town, Hermanus, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and Pretoria.

We also increased our output of soup to 6 tons of food weekly which is sent to various shelters, homeless organisations and other community organisations to feed those in need.

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