Sasol Report to Society 2020 - Book - Page 81
Sasol For Good
Volunteerism is viewed as a powerful means of building capacity and scalable actions,
and employee donations enable these to take root. Sasolburg employees raised
R45 532,00 which was donated to the Vaal Triangle CANSA Shavathon. Funds are
Festive drive
donated to organisations that deal with cancer.
Mandela
Day
Wish Upon a Star, now in its fifteenth year,
is an annual drive by the Lusa Community
Chest. The project paints a smile on the
hearts and faces of more than 1 000
disadvantaged children
More than 130
in the Vaal Triangle.
volunteers and
80 Metsimaholo
ECD centre
managers participated
Sasol Sasolburg has been one of the main
sponsors in the Wish Upon a Star drive for
the past few years and is honoured to have
been able to contribute to the initiative in
2019.
in Mandela Day activities.
ECD centre managers and
practitioners produced
educational toys using old
clothes.
Stationery
drive
Sasol supported
333 vulnerable
and orphaned
children in
Sasolburg,
Zamdela and
Vaalpark.
Sasol supported vulnerable and orphaned
children in Zamdela to be equipped for
school. 163 stationery packs
and school bags were distributed.
CASE STUDY
Sasol-Forever Resorts Enviro Quiz
Building environmentally-friendly practices
in the long term starts with awareness at a
young age. This is a competition for Grade
6 learners in the Free State and Eastern
Cape with the primary aim to develop
environmentally responsible learners who
will one day become environmental
ambassadors in our community.
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 implemented
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. The best performers in the quiz 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 do 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.
Over the years the competition has
reached more than 70 000 learners.
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