CSI Initiatives

Never again can a CSI strategy be cast in stone With the many challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, so too came many changes within the CSI landscape. Many corporates pivoted, directing urgent funding to food relief and the provision of PPE to help keep people safe and nourished during the lockdowns. Over 600 […]

MTN has donated R500,000 to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group, after its successful Share Kindness campaign that ran over October for World Mental Health month.   At a time when the stress of long-term isolation and sustained anxiety is seriously impacting mental health across the globe, MTN’s Share Kindness campaign aimed to raise

According to the World Food Programme, 811 million people across the globe still go to bed on an empty every night and one in three people suffer from some form of malnutrition. In South Africa, at least 3 million children hungry according to Stats SA. Andra Nel, CSI Manager at KFC South Africa asks, how

Upskilling South Africans in financial literacy and knowledge is one of the best ways to empower people to live with confidence. In the past six months, the Sanlam Foundation has provided consumer financial education (CFE) to 5 170 beneficiaries (the 2021 target is 6 050) via service provider Avocado Vision. This means that Sanlam has

To help rebuild South Africa, Capitec visited Tumelo Home and Hospice Centre and Bula Mahlo Home and Day Care, in collaboration with philanthropist BI Phakathi and musician K.O. Both NGOs are based in Johannesburg and were affected by the recent lootings. This forms part of Capitec’s #MakeADifference CSI initiative, which aims to help South Africans

SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER FARMERS AMIDST THE PANDEMIC Nozizwe Mhlongo farms on 10 hectares of land in Sehlakoane, a rural area in Limpopo. Some of this land she uses for maize production which recently benefited from Bayer’s Better Farms Better Lives initiative. Nozizwe is one of the estimated two million smallholder and subsistence farmers in South Africa,

Nedbank provides over R6,4 million in disaster funding and volunteer assistance to support relief and rebuilding efforts. As a responsible corporate citizen, Nedbank has joined the recovery and relief efforts, providing more than R6,4 million to support clean-ups, humanitarian relief and infrastructure rebuilding due to the unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. According to Poovi Pillay,

Cassie Jaganyi is the Corporate Affairs and Citizenship Leader for Sub-Sahara Africa at Procter & Gamble. We spoke to Cassie about The Always Keeping Girls in School program which is inspired by the Always brand purpose (to unleash women and girl’s confidence so they can be whoever they want to be) and by Procter &

With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many Mandela Day CSI initiatives for the second year running, CSI Agency MAMAS Alliance has some advice and guidance to offer corporates this year. MAMAS Alliance prioritizes the empowerment and upliftment of vulnerable youth and children across South Africa, with a network of 2 200 Mamas across 37 independent autonomous NGOs operating