Meeting with Kelvin Glen
Director – The Tiger Brands Foundation
14 November 2012

What are some of the biggest lessons you have learnt with the pilot and what are the current step and standards that reflect these lessons?

• We assumed the school and community would be ready.
  One needs to be flexible and adaptable.

Logistics, design and installation of kitchens, procurement, and the menu for kids.

• They hired an assets management company to monitor the equipment and usage and servicing of it.

Are the stakeholders: The Department of Education at a national, provincial and local level, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Social Development, Department of Health, Academic and Research Institutions, Beneficiary Schools, Parents, Community Leaders, Community Based Agencies (delivery partners), Tiger Brands, Public Customers and consumers / WHO ARE THE OTHER STAKEHOLDERS

• Agriculture and mining are interested in working with TBF

What is the future of TBF’s involvement with Alex, with regard to sustainability and public-private partnerships?

• TBF vision only work with 60 school for 3 years and then allow GDE to fund it and using their equipment and products at cost and then take the project to other communities for a another 3 year cycle.

What other needs did TBF discover during its research and strategic planning?

• Education for Nourishment
• After-school feeding, weekend feeding & holiday feeding
• Needed education of parents

What have the challenges been thus far with implementing the pilot? And the possible challenges with expansion? Has unemployment, crime, violence and drug within the community impacted the project?

• Only problem is the social issues with the workers and kids arriving at school, raped by a parent, abuse and HIV

What is Tiger Brands Foundation’s long-term goals?

• The ultimate goal of The TBF is to have learners well-nourished thanks to education, and a balanced diet resulting in improved performance, growth and development.
  The TBF plans to expand the breakfast feeding/food security programme across 56 primary schools in 6 provinces and in such is wanting to appoint 6 x dedicated project coordinators.

4 Pillars:

• School monitors: 13, one for each school. 18 – 22 years “Going no where slowly” R1000 per month, 07h00 – 8h30, Rotate every term.
• Food Handlers: R720 per month from GDE + R 600 from TBF for morning meal = R1120,
  breakfast must be served before 7h3- every day CHALLENGE: Managing the staff
• SMT : Schools
• GDE: CHALLENGE: Build a relationship and consult
• Outcomes-based

Information on Tiger Brands Foundation
The Tiger Brands Foundation (TBF) established in 2009 born out of the second phase of BB-BEE for

Tiger Brands a JSE Listed Company. The Foundation was established for broad-based community impact, and will be for the benefit of non–paying schools, and vulnerable groups in society as well as projects that promote sustainable livelihoods in the areas in which such non-paying schools exist.

Tiger Brands allocated 5% (five per cent) of its shares to the TBF.

mission statement
“To improve the lives of non – fee paying school children and their surroundingCommunities by creating sustainable, scalable and replicable programmes focused on nutrition and education enhancement”

The TBF plays a funding, thinking, co-ordination and delivery role in partnership with a number of stakeholders including but not limited to Department of Education at a national, provincial and local level, Department of Agriculture, Department of Social Development, Department of Health, Academic and Research Institutions, Beneficiary Schools, Parents, Community Leaders, Community Based Agencies (delivery partners), Tiger Brands, Public Customers and consumers and last but not least the shareholders.

The TBF has identified the need for a programme that addresses the needs of the most important meal of the day; breakfast. Too many learners at schools across the country arrive at school without having had breakfast. The concern being the school feeding schemes only provide a meal at lunchtime. The TBF is of the belief that by funding and supporting a breakfast-feeding scheme means the children will have sufficient food intake for the day given that many of them will not receive another meal until they return to school the following day.

The in-school breakfast feeding scheme incorporated upgrading kitchen facilities, nutrition education, skills development, job creation, community development and feeding the learners a nutritious breakfast.

The ultimate goal of The TBF is to have learners well-nourished thanks to education, and a balanced diet resulting in improved performance, growth and development.