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21 October 2025 Media Release: “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future” GRDM Celebrates World Food Day 2025

Media Release: “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future” GRDM Celebrates World Food Day 2025

20 October 2025

Every year on 16 October, World Food Day is commemorated. This year, under the theme, “Hand in Hand for better Food and a Better Future,” the Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs) of the Garden Route District Municipality’s (GRDM) Knysna sub-office, celebrated the day at the Masithandane Centre in Smutsville, Knysna.

EHP Mitetho Sithonga visited the Centre on 15 October 2025, where he addressed all the caregivers and beneficiaries, providing health education and awareness on several insightful topics. Topics included the following:

  • Environmental Health Practitioner (EHP) Mitetho Sithonga with beneficiaries at the Masithandane Centre in Smutsville.

    Buying only what you cannot grow locally and encouraging locals to start vegetable gardens in their own yards.

  • Lessons that can be learned from other African countries regarding food security.
  • Avoid unnecessary food waste, instead reviving the spirit of Ubuntu.
  • Different things to consider when buying food products.
  • The importance of checking date marking on food products.
  • The Five Keys to Safer Food.

These topics highlighted this years’ theme, a call for global collaboration in create a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous, and food-secure future by working together across governments, organisations, sectors, and communities.

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