A woman who runs a soup kitchen says she may not be able to cook for Eid after her container caught fire.
Nadia Smith says the fire destroyed her cooking utensils, stoves and salaah mats.
And now the Malibu woman says she can’t make labarang kos for the poor.
“I have been cooking in my home for about a week, but now I pay more for electricity,” she explains.
“We are a team of five and we all use our own money to buy the food and everything else needed.
“This soup kitchen is really helpful to the people in our community.”
Nadia says she doesn’t know how the container caught fire.
“It was around 10pm two weeks ago, I just saw the place go up in flames.
“And we tried to put the fire out, but by then it was too late,” she adds.
“Honestly, we have no idea what could have started the fire which destroyed everything.”
Nadia and her team opened the soup kitchen last year when they saw the dire need for food in the poor community.
“There were two containers, one was used for salaah prayers and the other was our kitchen. We didn’t even care about naming our project; all we were about was feeding the needy,” she says.
“We can see now that people are disappointed that we don’t cook like we did before.
“But we have been trying to make sure that they are served food. body copy_bold: “Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there will be anything for Eid because we don’t have a gas stove and cylinder, otherwise we would provide something for them.”
The team not only feeds Malibu, but also people from Nuwe Begin and Kleinvlei.
Anyone who would like to assist with donations can call Nadia on 081 587 6898 or 062 836 3024.