Local Organising: No Hungry Child in My Area

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The No Hungry Child in My Area campaign, part of the Union Against Hunger (UAH), provides a community-led strategy to eliminate child food poverty within defined local areas. At its heart, it seeks to strengthen and support the incredible efforts particularly single women running community kitchens, stepping in for government failure to realise the constitutional right of all to sufficient nutritious food, particularly for children.

Inspired by historic South African local organising and Marshall Ganz’s organising framework, this campaign offers a flexible organising model for local teams to build leadership, form partnerships, and take direct action.

Key Aspects of the Campaign:

• Core Mission: Aims to eliminate child hunger—including wasting, stunting, hidden hunger, and obesity—by organizing locally while connecting to broader movement networks.
• Organizing Model: Focuses on small, localized geographic zones (such as 10 to 20 blocks). Teams build relationships through one-to-one conversations, practice public narrative storytelling, and assign core roles, including coordinators, organizers, resource mappers, and activity leads.
• First 30 Days Blueprint: Outlines a weekly framework for new teams to map community assets, listen to local needs, set achievable 30-day goals, and regularly review progress.
• Supporting Infrastructure: Guidance on supporting community kitchens and food gardens by treating them as central organizing hubs while safeguarding organizers from burnout.
• Solidarity Pairings: Promotes equitable, mutual-support relationships between different organizing teams to share skills, resources, and political solidarity without creating donor-dependent dynamics.

We have run training for our local organising campaigns, including this one, so far in Gauteng (on 29 and 30 July 2026) and will be doing so in all other provinces, starting with the following three. If you are interested, please message us on info@unionagainsthunger.org.

• KwaZulu-Natal on 20 and 21 August 2026
• Eastern Cape on 9 and 10 September 2026
• Western Cape on 29 and 30 September 2026

Here are the first area teams that organising on this campaign in Gauteng. We’d love for you to join us and organise towards no hungry child in your area.

Area	Coordinator	Description
Area around 8th Ave, Alexandra	Irene Chauke	Londani Lushaka kitchen and surrounds
Bambanani, Tembisa	Lerato Boloka	Looking to start a new kitchen
Bekkersdal	Silas Nyeme	One formalised kitchen (Bekkersdal Nutrition Centre), others that are not consistently running. Area has around 10,000 households,
Braamfischerville	Dolly	Are contains Phelela Bokamoso Community Development Programme, a soup kitchen cooking at least twice a week serving 100 to 150 a day.
Illovo	Bilal Mpazayabo	Illovo residential and industrial area
Lindokuhle Mnguni	Siyanolisa Paul	About 150 households. Starting a soup kitchen.
Lorenzville	Sandra van Oostenbrugge	Area contains the People’s Pantry which supports multiple kitchens.
Mina Nawe	Palesa Padi	Informal settlement in Orange Farm. Team is taking steps to start a new kitchen as there isn’t one nearby.
Pretoria West	Flower Pitseng	Starting a kitchen, plan to work with unemployed youth on food garden.
Tsakane	Xolisile Masemola	Langaville and extension. Area currently contains two kitchens.
Vosloorus Ext 28	Boitumelo Magadla