CSI
Credit Guarantee
Corporate Social Investment Achievements
Every year, Credit Guarantee’s Corporate Social Responsibility pushes itself to give back to the community by identifying worthy beneficiaries. We believe in giving back, and by this, we always seek to endorse projects/programmes that prove to have a significant impact in changing lives and benefiting multi-communities.
The scope of our CSI programme covers the following segments:
Education
Training
Development Programmes
Environment
Job Creation
Arts & Culture
Health
Sport
MALTA COMBINED SCHOOL
Library Furniture, renovations, shelving, Maths workshop, paving and backpacks (Grade 12). R413 833,39
Malta Combined School’s academic results consistently maintain good national achievements, but there’s much more to do to improve the results. The renovation of the library was to improve the results. The sponsorship can be seen in last year’s grade 12 results in subjects like English, and Physical Sciences.
L&B Thusa Setshaba Foundation
School Shoes, School Uniform and Sanitary Towels. R50 462,94
Our objective is to build a society with the capacity to resist and reform social challenges in areas of education, sports activities even helping unprivileged households. The aim is to bring change in the communities that might need help. We have taken the responsibility to visit schools around our area to give motivation to learners and career guidance.
KASI HERO FOUNDATION
School furniture, classroom container, solo backpack – stationery and sweets. R193 475
Quarterly food delivery. R50 818
The after-School Programme caters to a total of 80 learners, ranging from Grade 4 to Grade 7. With the support of four dedicated volunteers, who are young members of the community, they have been able to provide educational assistance to these learners five days a week for a duration of two hours per day. The volunteers play a vital role in helping the learners with their homework, as well as providing additional support in Maths and English lessons. Quarterly food donation for the soup kitchen that caters for 300 kids from Monday to Friday.
TIYIMISENI PRIMARY SCHOOL
Prefab classroom and school furniture. R271 306,75
The school experienced a shortage of classes and furniture for learners. The school has introduced a Grade 7 class which was in demand. The prefab class will be occupied by the Grade 7.
READ TO RISE
Mini-libraries R35 000.
To address the absence of libraries READ to RISE created the mini-library, which is a brightly coloured bookshelf containing 50 new, age-appropriate, covered reading books in a mix of languages that reflects the children’s home languages. The mini-library is placed in the classroom in schools and managed by the teacher, who is now able to ensure that learners are reading the required number of books per year and can monitor their literacy progress.
REARABILWE EKURHULENI COMMUNITY CARE
Greenhouses R 192 600.00
The objective of the greenhouse is to protect the vegetables from bad weather and to have a flourishing garden. The gardening projects are based in Daveyton and Tsakane. The food gardeners are selling the vegetables to the communities and donating the vegetables to the after-school care programme. 12 Greenhouses and 6x5000L JOJO tanks
BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL
Water Well Drilling. R 245 640
Access to clean drinkable water is a scares resource in impoverished communities, especially the communities in the outlying areas. This project allows for that need to be satisfied, we do tend to focus on community areas such as schools, community centres etc, where we can have the biggest impact. About 150 households benefited from clean drinkable water and food gardening.
MIDESK - MAYIBUYE SCHOOL & ULWAZI LWEQINISO DAYCARE
Wheelie Schoolbag. R 99 705
Midesk is a revolutionary wheelie schoolbag that converts into a desk and a chair with a solar light and a USB charging portal. This innovative design allows for a child to wheel their bag, chair, and desk to school. The portable desk provides a child with a chair to sit on and a desk to write on that can be used at home and school.
DIPHETHOGO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
School shoes: R10 920,44
The organization donated school shoes to the schools in their community. A pair of shoes will help a child not just miss school due to injured feet but will make the long walk to school painless as well as less harmful to their feet.
SAME FOUNDATION - FORTE SECONDARY SCHOOL
Computer Science Renovations: R 150 214
As often experienced in poor communities, poor facilities, overcrowding, and uninspired learners are daily challenges. As a forward-thinking school, they decided to offer Computer Applications Technology to their students as learning subjects. The school has cited limited resources as their main challenge in providing this quality education to accommodate the number of learners doing Computer Applications Technology. The computer science renovation was sponsored.
WESTBURY COMMUNITY
Xmas Boxes: R38 478.00
The most vulnerable, elderly and less fortunate within the Westbury, Newclare, Watervaal, Shophiatown and Claremont areas were the reception of the boxes, it was welcomed with great attitude and happiness, and it made a difference to many special people who didn’t have anything given these challenging times we face as a community.
CORINTHIANS CENTRE
Recycling program & equipment: R 58 582
The primary aim is to reach troubled youth and transform them by giving them an outlet through sports and education. The initiative to start a recycling program that would recruit unemployed youth to collect any recyclables that could be sold and make a living as well. Store in a safe place wearing protected gear.
WESTBURY COMMUNITY
Xmas Boxes: R38 478.00
The most vulnerable, elderly and less fortunate within the Westbury, Newclare, Watervaal, Shophiatown and Claremont areas were the reception of the boxes, it was welcomed with great attitude and happiness, and it made a difference to many special people who didn’t have anything given these challenging times we face as a community.
CHILDREN'S HAVEN
Rehabilitation wheelchair: R12 980.00
The Haven is a place of safety for abused abandoned boys and girls of all races creeds and aged between 6 months and 20. The children experience love and care in a secure and warm environment. Haven needed the rehabilitation wheelchair for Cyril.
ISSY GESHEN LAMONT HOME FOR AGED
Medical equipment: R104 853,56
The Home is situated in Lamontville which is located approximately 15 kilometres south of Durban, and provides invaluable holistic nursing care, and specialised dementia care to 68 frail elders over the age of 60. At Issy Geshen Lamont Home, we continually strive to improve our facilities and standard of care, thereby providing maximum comfort for our elders in their twilight years.
NEW BEGINNINGZ
CCTV System: R53 725,55
We cater for children between the ages of newborns up to 18 years. Here children receive more than just the necessities of life. The ultimate long-term goal is to reunite these children with their families or extended families and reintroduce them back into their communities as productive citizens contributing to our country’s economy. The programs include Baby Haven, ECD Centre, Youth Centre, After Care and Community Assistance program.
SOUTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL
School Furniture: R104 574
Number of beneficiaries: 200
Southview Secondary School is situated in Lenasia South and caters for the needs of learners residing in Hospital Hill informal settlement and the suburb of Lenasia South. Some classrooms have over 50 learners but only 35 learners get a chair and tables. This hinders effective teaching and learning at the school. The high value on educating the whole child through superior teaching and learning in the classroom integrated with parent interaction and community involvement.
EVERY NATION JOBURG FOUNDATION
Charity Golf Day: R30 000
The ENJF mission is to give hope and the opportunity for a better future to those who need it the most. The desperate situations found in our city are our call to action. The ENJF social outreach initiatives that will benefit from this Golf Day fundraising event, are African Havens, Home-Base, Malibongwe and Thandanani.
SOUTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL
School Furniture: R104 574
Number of beneficiaries: 200
Southview Secondary School is situated in Lenasia South and caters for the needs of learners residing in Hospital Hill informal settlement and the suburb of Lenasia South. Some classrooms have over 50 learners but only 35 learners get a chair and tables. This hinders effective teaching and learning at the school. The high value on educating the whole child through superior teaching and learning in the classroom integrated with parent interaction and community involvement.
SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE
Stationery Boxes: R 41 417
SOS Children‘s Village South Africa is a place that orphan and abandoned children can call home: children live as part of their own culture and religion, in a place where their needs for food, health, shelter, and education are met. Through its villages, SOS Children’s Villages offers children who have been alone a place where they can be children again: to play, laugh, learn, make friends, and do all the things a child should do.
MATLA COMBINED SCHOOL
Science Laboratory: Physical and Life Science – R 595 161.00
MATLA COMBINED SCHOOL
Science Laboratory: Physical and Life Science
Mandela Day (Staff Involvement)
- Painting
- Cleaning windows
MATLA COMBINED SCHOOL
Grade 5 – Learner workshops – R 64 522.00
My Maths Buddy (The on-site seminar for teachers and the Learner workshops)
The workshops cover: Mathematics, meaning and purpose – Why Maths?
In the Learner Kit, they received: My Maths Buddy, Maths Words Workbook and cards for identification of misunderstandings.
THE PEACE AGENCY
KZN Floods
The Peace Agency is a Durban-based, umbrella NPO for several projects focused on alleviating the plight of orphans and vulnerable children. They also run and administer a creche in the Hammarsdale area, called The Hammarsdale Child Care Centre. They offer daily care to 20 babies or toddlers who come from the Hammarsdale and Woody Glen communities. Often mothers are still trying to finish school. They will also assist impoverished mothers by acting as a distribution point for any additional material donations we receive, such as clothes, toys and baby products.
LETCEE
KZN Floods – R25 000
LETCEE has worked with five rural communities implementing our holistic model for non-centre-based early childhood development. The organisation has grown from a small, part-time initiative, training 6 women in our first year, to a registered NPO training more than 300 women annually. The training facility has grown from a single room to a Centre, which consists of a training room, a residential block, kitchen and bathroom, as well as offices and waste storerooms.
IMBUMBA FOUNDATION
KZN Floods – R50 000
Distribution: Streetwise Care Centre, Marianhill, Durban – Monday, 2 May 2022
100 Beneficiaries: 95 Families / 5 to Centre
Disaster Relief: Food Packs
AFRIKA TIKKUN – R 200 000
Child & Youth Development Program this is an after-school program for young people from Grade 1 to 12 which provides e series of activities for education, career guidance, leadership and personal development. The program is based on 5 pillars – Inspired leaning, Care for Yourself, Grow your Future, Empowerment and Innovation. Saturday School Program to seek to provide academic support for a variety of subjects that include, but are not limited to Mathematics and English.
Early Childhood Development Program has been developed to primarily address the academic development of the children whilst being complemented by the Social Support Services initiatives. The ECD is aligned with the National Curriculum framework from birth to 4 years. A qualified ECD teacher and assistant in each class ensured delivery of a quality standardized curriculum and effective teaching and learning all ECD classrooms.
MATLA COMBINED SCHOOL – R 222 945.00
CGIC & OMI handed over science lab and care packs to 1400 leaners. The packs included food and hygiene items such as facecloth, toothpaste, sanitary towels etc.
L&B THUSA SETSHABA FOUNDATION – R 30 000
INKONJANE PRIMARY SCHOOL
The School is located in North West Province Ikageng Section.
Sanitary Towels and School Shoes donation
L&B THUSA SETSHABA FOUNDATION
MADIDI PRIMARY SCHOOL-North West Province-MADIDI VILLAGE
Sanitary Towels and School Shoes donation
RUN ALEX ATHLETICS CLUB JUNIORS
R 10 580.00 (Running Vests)
Our Children today are faced with multiple dangers, easy access to drugs, alcohol, exposure to crime. For a child growing up in Alexandra, these dangers are multiplied, because of the dense population of the township and the lack of formal structure in the township. Programs like Run Alex Juniors play a great role in providing a positive platform for children to engage in positive activities. It is through such programs that many of our children will escape the negative influences and realize their full potential.
FWC HOSPICE
R 60 869.00 – Borehole
R 40 146.00 – Quarterly food delivery
FOOTPRINT HOSPICE
R96 200.00 – Maintenance (tiling, painting, repairs and plumbing)
R 40 340.00 – Quarterly food delivery
WESTBURY COMMUNITY
R 50 871 – FOOD DONATION
KASI HERO FOUNDATION
R 86 956.00 – Wheelchairs
CORITNTHIANS
R 99 618.00 – School furniture, Bookshelves and Maintenance
REARABILWE
R 56 450.00 – Container
TIYIMISENI PRIMARY SCHOOL
R 176 000.00 – Maintenance
NEW BEGINNINGZ
R 102 495 – Solar Installations
Quarterly food delivery
Baragwanath Hospital Comforts Committee – R 39 173.00
Deo Gloria House – R 39 512.00
Thandanani house of refuge – R 40 633.00
Ikholwa children’s home – R 39 926.00
Bonolo Nursery for the Disabled – R 40 638.00
Vita Nova Centre – R 39 825.00
Home of Hope for Girls – R 40 203.00
Thandanani House Of Refuge – Bursaries for two students – R 58 648.00
FOOTPRINT HOSPICE
Footprints Hospice tends to the health care needs of individuals who often have no one else to help them in their time of need. We are a 30 bed facility (four wards with seven beds each and, a side ward used as a screening room with two beds). Helping deliver our quality care and support services on four levels namely acute or Terminal; Chronic; Respite; and Medication Compliance Monitoring.
- Maintenance – R 100 000
- Kitchen Cupboard Make Over
- Installation of Geysers
- Painting of Wards
- Quarterly food delivery – R 49 972.00
BHCC – HOSPITAL AND CLINIC OUTREACH
We achieve this by providing for the needs of inpatients (hospital necessities and recovery aids; refurbishment projects) and outpatients (soup kitchens and transportation assistance). We are running 14 soup kitchens within chronic treatment clinics (mainly in severely disadvantaged areas such as Soweto, Alexandra, West Rand, etc.)
- Quarterly food delivery – R 49 871.00
BONOLO NURSERY FOR THE DISABLED
Is helping children living particularly with Disabilities. The place provides safety, love, protection, and nurturing. The organization facilitates training workshops to educate community members on how to take care of people living with disabilities.
- Quarterly food delivery – R 49 898.00
READ TO RISE
Read to Rise is a non-profit organisation committed to promoting youth literacy in schools in South Africa’s under-resourced communities. As the name indicates, we firmly believe that children need to read in order to rise in their personal development and contribution to society. READ to RISE has designed programmes to directly address these root causes of poor reading levels.
- Books – R 20 000.00
Books donated
- Vukani Primary School, Soweto
- Hazeldene Primary in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town.
- Merrydale Primary in Mithchells Plain
HOME OF HOPE FOR GIRLS
We have two homes in the suburbs of Johannesburg, in addition to an outreach centre in the Hillbrow/Berea area. In total, there are 75 girls in full-time care and another 150 children are supported by the outreach programme.
- Quarterly food delivery – R 49 824.00
L&B THUSA SETSHABA FOUNDATION
Our objective is to build a society with capacity to resist and reform social challenges in areas of education, sport activities even helping the unprivileged households. The aim is to bring change in the communities that might need help. We have taken the responsibility to visit schools around our area to give motivation to leaners and career guidance.
- Donated Sanitary towels and School shoes – R 10 000.00
Schools
- Tlhasedi Primary School – North-West
- Fumane Secondary School – North-West
- Klipgat Secondary School – North-West
THANDANANI HOUSE OF REFUGE
We cater for children from vulnerable, orphaned and neglected backgrounds. These children are placed by social workers through the Children`s court. At Thandanani we provide a loving home environment, care, support and access to children. Some of our children have stayed for a short while, others are living at Thandanani on a permanent basis.
- Quarterly food delivery – R 49 964.00
NEW BEGINNINGZ
We cater for children between the ages of new-borns up to 18 years. Here children receive more than just the basic necessities of life. The ultimate long term goal is to reunite these children with their families or extended families and reintroduce them back into their communities as productive citizens contributing to our country’s economy. The programmes include Baby Haven, ECD Centre, Youth Centre, After Care and Community Assistance programme.
- Eco water tank 5000l & Installation – R 25 827.00
- Washing Machine – R 4 089.00
- Bunk beds – R 12 491.00
VITA NOVA CENTRE
We cater for persons with Cerebral Palsy, Down syndrome and the physically and mentally challenged. Some of our children are blind, deaf or have HIV/AIDS. At the moment we have 108 residents at the centre ranging from the age of 1 year and older, the oldest being 71 years old. They arrive at the centre with nothing and we provide them with toiletries, nappies, bedding and clothing. We give all our children lots of love and care, something they so desperately need and deserve!
- Quarterly food delivery – R 49 999.00
SPARROW HOSPICE
We offer home-based care, training, awareness and education on HIV/AIDS, palliative care, crafts and sewing services, assistance to over 108 community organisations, by way of feeding, clothing, funding, home-based care, training and monitoring, training of house mothers for child headed households. We will assist wherever we can and care for as many children and adults as possible affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.
- Quarterly food delivery – R 12 068.00
FWC HOSPICE
We have been making positive and impacting changes through active community outreach and participation in Hurst Hill, Gauteng. Today, we have increased our capacity to a building that houses our HPCA accredited 50-bed hospice.
- Medical equipment – R 122 539.00
- Quarterly food delivery – R 50 010.00
DEO GLORIA HOUSE
Serving our underprivileged communities, young and old, where ever possible. We currently feed approximately 500 children (from individual private homes) and 65 elderly people on a daily basis. We are providing food in the following areas: Krugersdorp CBD, Munsiville, and Randfontein.
- Quarterly food delivery – R 50 066.00
REHOBOTH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
We at Rehoboth Christian Fellowship are embarking on a project to feed a 100 families during the month of December. We are currently busy with collecting nonperishable foods to build a tree of life that will be used to build food parcels for various community members in need of assistance. Food box donated to 100 families during December.
- R 35 000.00
THABO T MADILOLA FOUNDATION (TTMF)
The organisation’s main objectives are to -support vulnerable groups in the community with different kinds of services such as distributing dignity packs to school girls nationwide, food parcels to child headed families and offer relief to disaster incidents. With secondary objectives to;
- To work in collaboration with other organisations that mainly deals with food access to distribute food parcels to child-headed families.
- To offer life skills to youths and support the aged and infirm.
- Encouraging the youths through motivational seminars.
- Sanitary towels – R 29 000.00
- Mococe High Secondary School – Mmabatho, Mafikeng
SUNSHINE TOUR TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES
The Sunshine Tour is a men’s professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. The programme designed by SAT to assist transformation players who are professional golfers playing on the Sunshine Tour & Big Easy Tour by providing them with various levels of support.
- R 287 500.00
FOOTPRINT HOSPICE
R 162 198.00
- Food delivery – R 71 031.00
- Medical Equipment – R 91 167.00
FWC HOSPICE
R 71 055.00
- Food delivery – R 71 055.00
DEO GLORIA HOUSE
R 29 024.00
- Food delivery – R 14 999.00
- Blankets – R 14 025.00
BHCC – HOSPITAL AND CLINIC OUTREACH
R 70 979.00
- Food delivery – R 70 979.00
HOUSE OF HOPE
R 24 001.00
- Food delivery – R 13 997.00
- Sanitary Towels – R 10 004.00
SPARROW MINISTRIES
R 69 757.00
- Food delivery – R 69 757.00
IKHOLWA HOPE FOR OUR CHILDREN
R 70 961.00
- Food delivery – R 70 961.00
BONOLO NURSERY FOR THE DISABLED
R 33 972.00
- Food delivery – R 33 972.00
THANDANANI HOUSE OF REFUGE
R 70 963.00
- Food delivery – R 70 963.00
VITA NOVA CENTRE
R 34 027.00
- Food delivery – R 34 027.00