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TASK: Mr South Africa, Habib Noorbhai will promote healthy living in Mitchells Plain TASK: Mr South Africa, Habib Noorbhai will promote healthy living in Mitchells Plain
Being a beauty queen, or king, is not just about glitz and glamour anymore.
These days, pageant winners also have a social responsibility, and this weekend, Mr South Africa, Habib Noorbhai, will be doing his bit for Mitchells Plain.
On Saturday, Habib is heading out to Beacon Valley to educate mense on how to change to a healthy lifestyle, and stay there.
Habib will be implementing the Sustainable Lifestyle Programme (SLP) in the community of Mitchells Plain. The SLP is an extension of his active community engagement over the last five years through his non-profit organisation, The Humanitarians.
SLP is an innovative project aimed to get the community of Mitchells Plain healthy.
As part of The Noakes Foundation initiative, Eat Better South Africa, this project aims to prove that a low carbohydrate and high fat lifestyle, also known as the Banting diet, is not only for the elite!
Habib, 28, is originally from Joburg but moved to Cape Town in 2011, where he lectures at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
Mr SA says he is very excited to meet mense on the Cape Flats ready to make that change.
“We will be providing education and demonstrations of the versatility of Heba [pap alternative] samples so that families can eat better and sustain themselves for longer,” he explains.
“We also hope to drive empowerment and employment in the area for the locals with the Banting pap.
“I’m very much looking forward to evoking a difference and I'm excited to engage with communities once again to drive forth empowerment and local accountability, especially around an area that I believe is much needed in South Africa.
“Mitchells Plain is the first community of many where we will be formally conducting the SLP.”
They’ve previously presented the programme in Bonteheuwels, where they completed their flagship project, The Biokinetic Humanitarian Project, in October last year.
“The BHP was conducted over six months and focuses on Biokinetic services to get the community fit and active with weekly complimentary exercise sessions and education,” Habib says.
Habib and his team will be at the Kribble & Krabble crèche in Beacon Valley on Saturday from 9am to 11am. To volunteer, email [email protected] or call 071 8500 179 for information.