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A Cape Town woman could not bear seeing the .__________ ¹⁾ go to waste, so she started a project to feed the city’s ____________ ⁽²⁾ .

Bianca du Plessis’s organisation called Feedback collects food from movie sets and takes it to the poorest of the _____________ ⁽³⁾ .

Du Plessis was on the set of a German movie in Cape Town a year ago when she saw the .____________ ⁽⁴⁾ feasts laid on for the ._____________ ⁵⁾ .

“But very often there was a lot of beautifully cooked buffet-style food left over. Why should all this go to___________ ⁶⁾ when there are people going hungry and scratching in ___________ ⁷⁾ for food?”

She suggested to the German film company ⁽⁷⁾ that it should give the leftovers to the poor. The ______________ ⁽⁸⁾ offered to help set up an organisation that would .________ ⁽⁹⁾ the food to various aid organisations.

Du Plessis said in the __________ ⁽¹⁰⁾ it was difficult to get other organisations to support the Feedback concept but with persistence and sometimes having to take “not now but later” for an answer she pulled it off.

She also got Engen to sponsor petrol.

Du Plessis said Feedback had grown into a collection and delivery service that aimed to redistribute excess food and food donations to communities in need.

Feedback has four vehicles that travel an average of 60 000 km a month delivering food to shelters, havens, crèches and clinics.

She said because of the demand in Cape Town, Feedback had set up an office in Johannesburg three months ago and would welcome any form of support, especially from food suppliers.

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