It is the second time that community food gardens will be selling their excess crops at Checkers stores around South Africa.

Lydia Hlophe from Yenzanathi Community Upliftment Programme in Botha's Hill, KwaZulu-Natal looks forward to the interaction with a broader customer base.

- Lydia Hlophe from Yenzanathi Community Upliftment Programme

The money generated by sales will go towards supporting the children who normally benefit from the Yenzanathi programme.

- Lydia Hlophe

Another second time participant is the Suthani Community Garden from Alexandra, Johannesburg.

- Kenneth Sibiya from Suthani Community Garden

Kenneth is one of the four pensioners who started Suthani (Isizulu for “well fed”). With support from Shoprite, the garden now grows enough vegetables to sell to the local community.

- Kenneth Sibiya

In the Eastern Cape, the Empumelelweni project in the Amothole District’s Goshen Village will participate in the Market Day for the very first time.

- Mxolisi Mankunti of the Empumelelweni project

In addition to partnering with sustainable food gardens, the Shoprite Group also makes surplus food from its stores available to verified non-profit organisations whilst its fleet of Mobile Soup Kitchens enables the Group to respond to immediate needs in vulnerable communities.