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Cape Town - Airports Company South Africa, Cape Town International Airport handed over R1.2m on Thursday to seven flagship beneficiaries with the remaining funds of over R1.6m being invested in various community driven programmes, with a focus on the airport's neighbouring communities.
The long term beneficiaries, funded over a period of 3 to 5 year cycle, are selected according to the company’s strategic Socio-Economic Development pillars.
“Our initiatives are aimed at ensuring that there is meaningful sustainable change in the communities closer to the airport,” said Deidre Davids, communications manager at Cape Town International Airport.
The beneficiaries funded by the airport focus on education, community development, environmental programmes and economic development.
The recipients who will receive funds at Leliebloem House are: Trac, a school based programme focusing on improving children’s exposure to mathematics, science and technology, Heart Capital, which supports a food pods project which enables disadvantaged communities to get access to fresh vegetables.
This space offers franchises opportunities to sell the vegetables to the community. Other beneficiaries are Beyond Education, a recycle swop shop, a place where children can swap bags of recyclable items for essentials such as books, pens, clothing, shoes, toiletries and deodorants.
Learn to Earn which develops skills for individuals to start their own businesses and Living through Learning which is a literacy programme run in seven disadvantaged schools in Cape Town.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to All Animals (SPCA), which focuses on improving the health and well-being of pets and their owners.
“The upliftment of the airport’s immediate surrounding communities is important to us and in achieving this we have to ensure that whatever support we give leads to self-reliance and sustainable projects which benefits the people living in these communities," said Davids.
"We will also spend R200 000 in an outreach programme which benefits 20 organisations in the airport’s neighbouring communities and another R230 000 shortly in support of organisations recommended by our staff members.”
- Fin24
