eMedia Investments and the HCI Foundation's COVID-19 relief fund

South Africans are going hungry. We need to put food on the tables of those that are vulnerable and so we ask you to be a part of the solution.

“We’re not going to die from COVID-19, we’re going to die from hunger,” the painful and desperate words of a viewer we spoke to in Mitchell’s Plain. Residents took to the streets, not in defiance of the lockdown, but in search of food to feed their families.

In recognition of this need, eMedia Investments in association with the Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) Foundation, is launching a COVID-19 Relief Fund aimed at assisting the most vulnerable in our society – fellow South Africans at risk of going to sleep without a meal.

HCI Foundation, the corporate social investment arm of black empowerment investment company HCI, is contributing R500 000 to kick-start the fund.

As part of its food distribution network, the eMedia COVID-19 Relief Fund will also work with the Lunchbox Fund. This is a service that provides daily meals to orphaned and vulnerable school children within townships and rural areas across South Africa.

Viewers and businesses alike can visit donate.etv.co.za​ and follow the ‘Donate now’ link or call the call centre on 021 481 4599 to contribute.