about PSFA
The Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA), a registered Non-Profit Organisation, was established in 1958 when the government at the time discontinued the national school feeding programme. The Rotary Club of Paarden Eiland (now Table Bay), aware of the need for school feeding, called a public meeting, at which PSFA was formed.
PSFA is governed by a Voluntary Management Committee that oversees the strategic and policy framework of the organisation, while the day to day operations are managed by a full time staff compliment.
For more than 50 years, PSFA has been providing meals to hungry children in primary, secondary and special-needs schools across the Western Province, including the distant rural areas.
PSFA maintains an investment reserve that generates interest to cover all operating expenses. This makes it possible for 100% of all donations to be directed exclusively towards the cost of school feeding.
PSFA has Section 18A status, which makes all donations tax deductible. Our NPO Registration Number is: 002-878.
our mission
To combat the prevalence of hunger in children attending schools or other educational institutions in the Western Cape, through school feeding and development initiatives that promote self-sufficiency and household food security.
With a constituted mission to "improve the general health and welfare of school children" (PSFA's Constitution, 2(a)), we endeavour to address the fundamental human need for food and nutrition. In the face of diminishing government allocations to address school feeding, coupled with rising unemployment and spiralling inflation, PSFA envisages an even stronger imperative for the Association to exist as a non-profit organisation, providing this fundamental service.
PSFA is audited monthly by the Department of Education's National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) as well as a registered independent auditing firm.
