At Singita, our exceptional food and wine offering is an extension of our intimate and exclusive safari experiences. From surprise breakfasts in the bush to dinners under a canopy of stars on the private deck of your suite, each meal is part of our carefully curated farm-to-table food journey that celebrates seasonal flavours, regional recipes that have been handed down through generations and an emphasis on portions that are tasty, healthy and less wasteful.

Our beautifully curated 274-page cookbook, Singita: Our Food Journey, honours the cuisines of the continent, and brings traditional and contemporary recipes of Africa to life. Try them out at home. From our fragrant Coconut Lentil Stew to our aromatic Lamb and Prune Tagine and Saffron Couscous – you'll feel like you're transported right to the plains of the Serengeti in no time. 

The Singita Community Culinary Schools in South Africa and Tanzania offer rigorous professional cookery courses that see young people drawn from local communities graduating as commis chefs of the highest calibre. They emerge with sought-after skills and strong employment prospects, while kitchens at Singita lodges and those further afield benefit from a pool of expertly-trained young chefs.

Profits from the proceeds of the Singita cookbook support both culinary schools. Order here. 

Helping Vulnerable Families 

The devastating impact of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown on communities surrounding Sabi Sand and the Kruger National Park in South Africa has left many families without food. The Singita Lowveld Trust is therefore temporarily providing emergency food relief to the neediest families during this time. This initiative is crucial for their survival, and basic nutrition is especially important for the development of young children. $35, can sponsor a food parcel that will feed a family of four for a month.

The severity of this crisis has prompted many lodges and non-profit organisations around Sabi Sand and the Kruger National Park to come together and supply the most vulnerable families with emergency food parcels until government relief becomes available.

Singita Lowveld Trust, our non-profit conservation partner in South Africa, has been supporting Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres around Singita Sabi Sand and Singita Kruger National Park for many years, funding specialist training and support for principals, teachers and parents and establishing a donor-funded ECD Resource Drive to equip participating schools with educational equipment. 

• Approximately 2,000 children attend our 17 ECD Centres. Of these, the ECD Principals identified 85 families without any income or social grants whatsoever. These families have already received their first food parcels.
• With your generous help, we aim to expand the scope of the emergency food relief initiative to support the families identified as desperately vulnerable until ECD Centres have reopened and government feeding schemes are up and running.

The success of this short-term interim relief for our community partners depends on the generosity of Singita guests and other donors who share our concern for the current and future wellbeing of these communities. Alongside our ongoing, critical conservation efforts to maintain and safeguard our reserves and unique wildlife, this emergency food relief initiative is aimed at making a meaningful contribution to our many community partners supporting the region, and to emerge from the pandemic prepared for the challenges that lie ahead.

Here's how you can help:
For less than a takeout dinner for two, or $35, you can sponsor a food parcel that will feed a family of 4 for a month. Each parcel contains basic staples like maize meal, rice, pilchards, baked beans and peanut butter as well as two face masks. 

To support the 85 families for one month is R55,000 – approximately USD 3,000.

To read more or to kindly donate: https://conservation.singita.com/project/emergency-food-relief-program-covid-19/