With COVID-19 taking up all the news, it is easy to forget that we are already at the centre of a global pandemic: HIV and AIDS. In South Africa – which has the highest number of people living with HIV in the world – the face of HIV is largely young and female, with adolescent […]
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Most classrooms in South Africa have over 50 learners per class with one teacher having to give enough attention to each child. This is impossible in most cases resulting in some children being left behind. 2020 has added additional strain to this already tenuous situation with Teachers and Parents now having to help learners to
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Now in its 12th year, CSI: The Human Face of Business has become the key reference guide for best practice and innovation in SA social investment. With the social, economic and health challenges emerging from the Covid-19 crisis, thousands of South Africans are set to be adversely impacted – throwing into sharp relief the importance
The Thebe Foundation Relief Fund, an initiative launched at the beginning of lockdown to help feed the country’s most vulnerable communities, is continuing with food relief this Saturday, 18 July 2020, with hampers being distributed to feed another 1 000 families in the Soweto. Over 3 400 families, in communities around Gauteng, have already received desperately
Corporate Social Investment (CSI) initiatives should be more than a brand image activity – this is a philosophy that OUTsurance believes in. It is with this in mind that their CSI projects have managed to go beyond their ethos of, ‘you always get something out.’ OUTsurance’s culture of giving back to communities officially began in
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Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has partnered with Twiga Foods to increase agricultural productivity through precision farming. This partnership is opening up a new world of opportunities, enabled by Kenya’s rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) network, Liquid Telecom says. In a statement on Tuesday, Liquid Telecom said it has deployed a complete precision agriculture
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The Ford Foundation and four others plan to substantially increase their spending, a splurge financed in part by issuing debt. The week after the U.S. economy shut down in March, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, fielded a stream of phone calls from the heads of dozens of organizations that Ford supports. Many
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Restaurants may be closed, but hope is alive in many kitchens across the country. They’re producing meals for the old and frail, those who’ve lost their jobs, the children who aren’t getting their meals at school. Eat Out in partnership with Community Chest launched a new initiative called, Eat Out Restaurant Relief Fund, on Friday
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COVID-19 pandemic continues to greatly impact food security for most vulnerable in society Corporate South Africa has a huge part to play in assisting the most vulnerable in society as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have such devastating effects on the country’s most vulnerable. The Thebe Foundation Trust is no exception. Within days of being
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“PPS is the only mutual financial services company in South Africa that focuses exclusively on graduate professionals,” explains Masenyane Molefe, Group HR Executive at PPS. “As such, our focus on STEM talks to both our core business and the members who make up our primary target market, as well as contributing to one of the
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