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Social impact across our host countries continued
South Africa continued
Skills
development
Youth Employment Service (YES)
Sasol was one of the first adopters of the Youth Employment Service (YES)
programme when it was introduced to mitigate the high youth unemployment in
the country. To date over 500 YES leaners have been employed for
12 months to gain meaningful work experience across our operations. Approximately
165 YES learners joined Sasol on 22 July 2019 and were given work
experience at Sasol as part of the South African skills development initiative to
support national economic growth and development requirements. Ongoing
interventions are in place to support the YES learners on topics such as re-entering
the job market, job search skills and financial skills.
Farming skills
In collaboration with our partners,
Sasol has funded the training of
120 young local
emerging and
subsistence farmers
from the Gert Sibande District to gain
technical, financial and business
skills. On completion of their training
these emerging farmers will be
mentored and assisted to set up their
farming enterprises.
Business
development
skills
Sasol co-sponsored, for the sixth consecutive year, the National Step Up to
A Start Up programme. In the past financial year 101 schools participated
and over 12 000 learners were challenged to develop a business idea which will enable
them to build their business development skills while nurturing the idea of being entrepreneurs.
Community
development
Empowering persons living
with disabilities
For the past two years, Sasol has supported the North-West
University Library and Information Services (LIS) project for the
blind and visually impaired persons in collaboration the
Department of Arts Culture Sports and Recreation, and South
African Library for the Blind in the North-West Province.
Over 438 libraries have benefitted from
visually impaired services such as training for
library staff, additional equipment and books
content narration in Setswana/SeSotho
indigenous languages.
Albinism is classified by the United Nations as a disability and
it is one of the conditions rarely understood by communities.
Sasol supported the Human Rights Media
Centre, an organisation that promotes awareness and a culture
of human rights, in empowering community-based human rights
activists across four provinces to enlighten communities about
people living with hyperpigmentation and how to deal with it
in schools, communities and the workplace.
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Health and wellbeing
We recognise that healthy communities are productive
growing communities. Therefore, we collaborate with local
governments to provide access to basic healthcare
services and facilities. We upgraded the physical
infrastructure at the Fezi Ngubentombi District Hospital
and ran a successful campaign to raise awareness on HIV/
AIDS and TB. We also rolled out testing and screening
roadshows in both Sasolburg and Secunda regions
where 80 000 community members were
reached.
Infrastructure
We supported the rehabilitation of various roads,
including a portion of R59 in Sasolburg, to assist with
safety of commuters. Construction work was undertaken
by a local B-BBEE principal contractor and benefitted
four other local SMMEs. 38 jobs were created and
others retained through an extended maintenance to be
undertaken.
