When the Covid-19 pandemic started threatening food security across the world, NOAH took action. We shifted the NOAH model from meal provision to the establishment of sustainable, communal and household-led food gardens. This has seen the gradual transformation of available garden spaces at the Woodstock and Khayelitsha Centre premises and individual households into flourishing veggie gardens.

A couple of years in, the benefits of this project are already evident. With 83 individual food gardens and 7 communal gardens, residents can eat, share or sell fresh, homegrown veggies that provide nutritious and healthy meals. The garden project helps generate significant cost-savings for our elders, their families and neighbours.

Through the Woodstock and Khayelitsha clinics, partnerships with the University of Cape Town, and wonderful volunteers, NOAH members have access to simple and easy to implement nutritional advice.

Residents can learn about the nutritional value of different foods, managing monthly grocery bills, cooking homemade, healthy and balanced meals and more.

Thanks to the Health team’s expertise, members can also benefit from specialized advice on topics such as managing blood sugar levels for diabetics.

With the cost of food spiraling out of control, making ends meet has become a struggle. The more vulnerable seniors started skipping meals or borrowing money from one another.

NOAH residents came up with a self-help solution, Buy-in-Bulk, or affectionately called BIB. After residents place their staple food orders with BIB and using NOAH’s collective buying power, BIB buys food products at wholesale prices and passes on the discount. Stock is stored in a shipping container at one of the NOAH houses and on payment, buyers collect their goods or have them delivered for a small fee.

In line with NOAH’s strengths-based approach to development and member independence – we are proud to announce the NOAH Home Industry. Operating from the newly refurbished Woodstock Community Kitchen, NOAH members use the space and equipment to bake and cook local dishes and tasty delights to sell to friends and family. Pies, samosas, cakes and pizzas are some of the delicious items coming out of the very busy kitchen. Some members have even catered for private events to boost their income.

When the Covid-19 pandemic started threatening food security across the world, NOAH took action. We shifted the NOAH model from meal provision to the establishment of sustainable, communal and household-led food gardens. This has seen the gradual transformation of available garden spaces at the Woodstock and Khayelitsha Centre premises and individual households into flourishing veggie gardens.

A couple of years in, the benefits of this project are already evident. With 83 individual food gardens and 7 communal gardens, residents can eat, share or sell fresh, homegrown veggies that provide nutritious and healthy meals. The garden project helps generate significant cost-savings for our elders, their families and neighbours.

Through the Woodstock and Khayelitsha clinics, partnerships with the University of Cape Town, and wonderful volunteers, NOAH members have access to simple and easy to implement nutritional advice.

Residents can learn about the nutritional value of different foods, managing monthly grocery bills, cooking homemade, healthy and balanced meals and more.

Thanks to the Health team’s expertise, members can also benefit from specialized advice on topics such as managing blood sugar levels for diabetics.

With the cost of food spiraling out of control, making ends meet has become a struggle. The more vulnerable seniors started skipping meals or borrowing money from one another.

NOAH residents came up with a self-help solution, Buy-in-Bulk, or affectionately called BIB. After residents place their staple food orders with BIB and using NOAH’s collective buying power, BIB buys food products at wholesale prices and passes on the discount. Stock is stored in a shipping container at one of the NOAH houses and on payment, buyers collect their goods or have them delivered for a small fee.

In line with NOAH’s strengths-based approach to development and member independence – we are proud to announce the NOAH Home Industry. Operating from the newly refurbished Woodstock Community Kitchen, NOAH members use the space and equipment to bake and cook local dishes and tasty delights to sell to friends and family. Pies, samosas, cakes and pizzas are some of the delicious items coming out of the very busy kitchen. Some members have even catered for private events to boost their income.