The Ubuntu Safe Haven Soup Kitchen in the DRC informal settlement on the outskirts of Swakopmund is pleading with good Samaritans to assist in building a dining hall and utensils. 

The soup kitchen feeds over 300 children, who receive their meals in the open.

31-year-old Jaqueline !Gorases, the founder of Ubuntu Safe Haven Soup Kitchen, comes from an extended family. 

Seeing her grandmother feed more than 15 family members from a small pot inspired her to start a soup kitchen.

The soup kitchen is a lifeline for many families as it provides much-needed nutrition to 300 underprivileged children once every Sunday.

The DRC informal settlement where these children grow up lacks electricity, and water must be fetched from community taps.

Gas has also become expensive, leaving them to cook on an open fire.

"I schooled and grew up here, and this is my sub kitchen. Basically, we cater to the whole community; we started with the kids, and later on, we saw that this can grow, so we said, Let's cater to everyone in the community itself. So this kitchen is where everybody comes together, regardless of who they are or where they are coming from or their race, so the safe event is for the kids, where kids come during weekdays. I help them with their homework, or if they need something from me, I'm always there for them."

13-year-old Namasiku Simvula is one of the children who benefit from the soup kitchen.

"My role is to assist the lines and to keep the kids in order and help with the soup kitchen, hanging out tables and shoes when I'm called to assist, but I'm mostly an assistant with the lines."

More than N$50,000 worth of food was given to the soup kitchen by the Swakop Uranium Foundation.

Swakop Uranium encouraged concerned citizens to meet the soup kitchen halfway to provide food and support to those in need.