A group of youth Volunteers from the Mayu neighborhood south of the Sudanese capital Khartoum last week launched a kitchen project to feed vulnerable families in the area’s seventh district.

The South Belt Emergency Room confirmed through a statement obtained by Radio Tamazuj on Sunday that the kitchen was able to provide 455 meals to the residents of the area within a week of its opening.

“Mayu Kitchen, Seventh District, was opened last Sunday, 14 April, with the efforts of the volunteer youth in the area, joining the ranks of South Belt kitchens,” the statement read in part. “The kitchen is currently operating at a rate of one meal per day and has been able to provide 455 meals to the residents of the area over the past five days.”

According to the statement, the kitchen operates five days a week, providing one meal per day to families.

Meanwhile, Mohammed Saif, a member of the media office of the South Belt Emergency Room, said this is the fifth kitchen to be operationalized in the area.

“After the commencement of its work, Mayu Kitchen in the Seventh District becomes the fifth kitchen within the group of kitchens in the South Belt area,” he stated. “The kitchen was inaugurated with the efforts of the volunteer youth in the area.”

Saif explained that the kitchens have provided approximately 20,000 meals to families in the South Belt area since Ramadan.

“Work officially began in the kitchen last week at a progressively increasing pace until it reached 455 meals and we expect the opening of more kitchens in various sectors of the area in the coming period,” he said.

One of the volunteers at the kitchen who preferred anonymity told this publication that the meals provided include red lentils, vermicelli, and yellow lentils.

“The number of beneficiaries from the service on the first day was 120 families and the number has now increased to 455 households,” she said.