Sasol Report to Society 2020 - Book - Page 54
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The year in review: global impact continued
Environmental stewardship
Developing communities and
social enterprises with a focus
on environmental stewardship
Our environmental stewardship programme adopts an
integrated approach which contributes to mitigating the
impact of our environmental footprint on our fenceline in
communities.
Globally, over 150
000
community members
and school children have been
reached through our
environmental stewardship
programmes.
Our investments focus on sustainable water, air, sanitation
and health programmes.
water
conservation
air
biodiversity
Informing and influencing children from a young age about the
environment and promoting awareness contributes to
heightened sensitivity with the aim of reducing negative
influencers.
In Sasolburg, we have been the primary sponsor of the SasolForever Resorts Enviro Quiz since 2004. This is a competition for
Grade 6 learners in the Free State and Eastern Cape to develop
environmentally responsible learners who will one day become
environmental ambassadors. The Environmental Empowerment
Directorate of the Free State Department of Economic, Small
Business Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs,
initiated the competition in 1994 and is still the implementation
partner.
The competition consists of three rounds over a year. In the first
round, all primary schools in the Free State and parts of the
Eastern Cape are invited to participate. The Department of
Environmental Affairs does presentations to encourage
environmental awareness among the learners before teams of
four learners complete a questionnaire on the presentations. The
best performers proceed to the next round. Annually about 5 000
learners from more than 800 schools participate in this round.
During the second round, 115 teams from the Free State and 20
from the Eastern Cape compete. Semi-finalists are required to
complete an environmental project at their school. These projects
are then evaluated by a panel of judges and the best projects
continue to the final round.
In 2019 teams from 19 primary schools from the Free State and
Eastern Cape qualified for the third and final round of the
competition.
Our programmes cover
waste
management
Environmental awareness in
South Africa
sustainable
food
systems
Our programmes assist learners, educators and
communities in understanding the connection between
environment and economic opportunities as well as our
dependencies on the environment.
Over the years the competition has reached more than
70 000 learners.
We continued to roll out environmental awareness on waste
management through community door-to-door and school
awareness campaigns in Zamdela where 15 schools were reached.
We have reached 6 936 learners through industrial theatre/
puppet shows, visited 3 012 houses to date, visited 60 Early
Childhood Development Centres (ECDs) reaching 2 994 children
and completed a community clean-up campaign.
This resulted in classroom interaction sessions which
impacted 10 320 learners and 361 teachers to date.
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