GROWTH PLAN
2025 - 2028
As an NPO, Empowering Eats needs to constantly increase its footprint in growing communities & improving its outreach. From serving just a few hundred people since we started out to now serving approximately 100 000 meals in 2024, we feel the need to take this number to even greater heights.
Our vision is quite simple, to keep moving up, to touch more people, not only with meals, with motivation that someone actually cares. Our plan for the next few years is to expand throughout South Africa and constantly spiralling upwards. Through the support of our partners and volunteers, we are headed in the right direction, without expecting anything in return.
2025
- To be more visible.
- Debit orders for customers.
- More meaning marketing – Impact on Food and hunger.
- Create impactful marketing campaigns and social media strategies to raise awareness about food insecurity and Empowering Eats’ mission.
- To distribute 200 000 meals for 2025.
- Ramadan 2025: to distribute 100 000 meals.
- To distribute 400 Fitra parcels.
- To have 20 satellite kitchens set up before the end of 2025 bring the total to 30 by the end of 2025.
- Stronger winter drives, this needs to be planned.
- Working with more community NPO’s and sporting clubs.
- To have our own property by the end of 2025.
- To have 2 company vehicles for visibility.
- Establishing a fundraising committee.
- To send 2 people on Umrah.
- Host a large-scale fundraising event to celebrate achievements and gather community support.
- To secure 3 big funders for the organization before the end of 2025.
- Develop educational programs to address nutrition and cooking skills in communities.
- To be more visible.
- Create impactful marketing campaigns and social media strategies to raise awareness about food insecurity and Empowering Eats’ mission.
- To distribute 400 000 meals for 2026.
- Ramadan 2026: to feed 200 000 people.
- To distribute 800 Fitra parcels.
- Stronger winter drives, this needs to be planned.
- To have 50 satellite kitchens set up before the end of 2026.
- To secure 5 big funders for the organization before the end of 2026.
- Working with more community NPO’s and sporting clubs.
- To have our own Warehouse and offices.
- Establish volunteer training programs to enhance capacity at our offices.
- To provide employment for people.
- To send 4 people on Umrah.
- To be able to fund schools in the WC, sporting clubs.
- To have 3 kitchens in other provinces.
2026
2027
- To be more visible.
- Transition to a more structured operational model with dedicated teams for logistics, outreach, and fundraising.
- To distribute 600 000 meals
- Ramadan 2027: to feed 400 000 people.
- To distribute 1000 Fitra parcels.
- Stronger winter drives, this needs to be planned.
- Working with more community NPO’s and sporting clubs.
- To have 70 satellite kitchens set up before the end of 2027.
- To secure 10 big funders for the organization before the end of 2027
- Acquire 10 branded vehicles by 2027 for better visibility and distribution.
- Transition to a more structured operational model with dedicated teams for logistics, outreach, and fundraising.
- Employee a CEO and a strong leadership team.
- Riaaz speaking more on Empowering Eats on different platforms.
- To distribute 800 000 meals.
- Ramadan 2028: to feed 600 000 people.
- To distribute 2000 Fitra parcels.
- Stronger winter drives, this needs to be planned.
- Working with more community NPO’s and sporting clubs.
- To have 100 satellite kitchens set up before the end of 2028.
- To secure 20 big funders for the organization before the end of 2028.
- To send 10 people on Umrah.