She received financial help from family and friends back in the UK which allowed her to buy fruit, vegetables, meat and fish to complement the children's normal diet of maize meals and cabbage.

[citation needed] Msizi Africa grew significantly after Lucy Caslon became one of eight winners of Vodafones 2008's World of Difference programme[7] which allowed her to work full-time for her charity.

[8] Impressed by her success one of her corporate supporters decided to match Vodafone's scheme and continue to pay her salary for 2010 and 2011[9] enabling the charity in the following years to help to relieve the hardship of around thousand children in Africa, where the AIDS pandemic has left many without parents or an extended family.

[9] In 2008, the Cape Town charity Beautiful Gate had to care for additional several hundred mothers with babies and young children due to the xenophobic attacks aimed towards foreign nationals living in South Africa which erupted in May and June of that year.

After graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2003 with a BA in History she worked in the charity sector for three years, first in the events team at Marie Curie Cancer Care and eighteen months later as corporate fundraiser with Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.

[citation needed] She spend her evenings and weekends to raise funds while working full-time for eighteen months as Team Secretary EMEA Hospitality for DTZ.

[14] Lucy Caslon shares her experiences to help other prospective founders by giving talks like for the Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs[9] or as speaker at the Institute of Fundraising's National Convention 2012[15] and by writing articles.

[17] Caslon was selected to carry the Olympic Torch on 23 July 2012 in Sutton[18] on Croydon Road (A232) from the junction with The Manor Way by the Wallington County Grammar School to the beginning of Acre Lane.

[20] After serving as director at her charity from June 2007 to March 2013 Caslon returned to the Marie Curie Cancer Care organisation as Senior Corporate Account Manager[21] but remains a trustee with Msizi Africa.

[26] On 29 October 2019, Lucy Herron received from Prime Minister Boris Johnson the UK's 1276th Points of Light award for her work with Msizi Africa.

[28][29] On 23 October 2020 Herron published an open letter on the official Facebook account of the charity in which she returned the award[28] after Boris Johnson voted in parliament against providing school meals to needy children during the holidays in autumn and winter 2020 inmidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

[30] Msizi Africa concentrates its efforts to provide financial and logistic support to community based feeding programmes in villages in the Mohale's Hoek district of the Kingdom of Lesotho.

The villages have been evaluated in order of their vulnerability taking into account the age of the children, the availability of food sources, prevalence of HIV and the presence of adult carers.

[37] In order to allow Msizi Africa Lesotho to become self-sufficient and able to raise the income for the feeding programmes within the country by 2023, a pilot project was started in June 2020 with two cows and loaned land.

[42][43] In 2000, Chadd Bain returned to his native KwaZulu-Natal from the UK and started with two Zulu friends to educate and feed poor people in the rural area he had grown up in.