South Africa has enough food.Yet townships still go hungry.
Kasi Harvest connects verified township organisations improving food security through feeding programmes, food gardens, community agriculture and tree planting.
Currently onboarding founding organisations in Gauteng.
Kitchens
Gardens
Feeding
SkillsWhy are township organisations still invisible?
The work exists. The need exists. The support exists.
The connection is broken.
No central database
No trusted place to discover organisations.
Hard to attract sponsors
Great organisations remain unseen.
Weak verification
Sponsors struggle to know who is credible.
Limited impact reporting
Outcomes are hard to measure.
Hard to find online
No website, outdated contacts, or missing from Google and Maps.
Trusted by a growing township network
Early validation from pilot outreach — and we're just getting started.
How Kasi Harvest grows
We are launching in phases — starting with trust, then intelligence, then infrastructure.
Phase 1 — Building trust
- Onboarding organisations
- Document verification
- Needs mapping
- Pilot network building
- Early visibility
Phase 2 — Building intelligence
- Readiness scoring
- Sponsor matching
- Procurement support
- Better organisation profiling
- Opportunity discovery
Phase 3 — Building infrastructure
- National expansion
- Live dashboards
- Real-time impact reporting
- Full ecosystem intelligence
- Township food infrastructure network
Who should apply for Phase 1?
Phase 1 is best suited to organisations that have been actively operating on the ground for at least 12 months.
- Registered NPO / NPC
- Feeding schemes & community kitchens
- School nutrition programmes
- Food gardens, school gardens & community farms
- Fruit tree & urban agriculture initiatives
- Environmental & food security organisations
- Must have been actively operating for 12+ months
- Registration documents
- ID of contact person
- Bank confirmation / proof
- Proof of address
- Photos of activities
- Impact numbers
- Constitution / founding docs
Not registered yet?
You may still apply. Applications with complete documentation are reviewed faster.
What happens after you register?
Application submitted
Verification review
Discovery call / site visit
Readiness scoring
Network onboarding
Real organisations. Real work. Real impact.
Example profiles showing the depth of visibility Kasi Harvest is building.
Community kitchenHigh urgency1,200 meals / monthSoweto Community Kitchen
Pimville, Soweto
Feeds elderly residents and child-headed households a hot meal every single day.
Industrial stove
R4,400 raised of R10,800 · 41%
Without this, 1,200 monthly meals may be disrupted.
Food gardenMedium urgencyFresh produce weeklyTembisa Food Garden
Tembisa, Ekurhuleni
Grows fresh vegetables that feed 300 local families and supply nearby kitchens.
Seeds & irrigation
R6,200 raised of R18,500 · 34%
Without this, the next harvest for 300 families is at risk.
School feedingHigh urgency800 meals / dayAlex Learners' Feeding
Alexandra, Johannesburg
Provides one hot meal every school day to vulnerable learners who would otherwise go hungry.
Monthly food supply
R15,600 raised of R24,000 · 65%
Without this, 800 learners lose their only daily meal.
Illustrative examples of the needs Kasi Harvest is built to surface. Figures shown are for illustration.
Be part of the movement
Whether you give or get involved, there's a place for you in the Kasi Harvest network.
Donate / Sponsor
Fund meals, trees, seedlings, irrigation, compost, tools, equipment and training for verified township organisations.
For corporates, donors and CSI teams
Volunteer
Plant trees, build gardens, mentor growers, help with harvests, distribute food or share skills that strengthen township food systems.
For students, professionals and community members
Want to dig deeper?
Focused pages for everything you'd like to know about the platform, our mission and how it works.
Run a feeding scheme, kitchen, garden, farm or tree-planting initiative?
Apply for Phase 1 onboarding and join our founding network of township food security organisations.
Applying does not guarantee approval, funding or sponsorship.