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3 . Who has the foundation partnered with to bring
its vision to life?
From inception through we have been afforded the
support and backing of ABSA corporate and
investment banking through this initiative. This support
has been a pillar of strength to grow and guide the
foundation with a firm respected corporate backing.
Through our business networks and relationships ,we
network with other businesses and corporates to
provided sponsorships and support to the cause. The
power of businesses behind the upliftment of
communities is priceless and helps create and grow the
awareness of a situation that needs our country’s
attention.
4. What projects have you engaged in since
inception and how successful have you been in
meeting these objectives.
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Our focus prior to the inception of the foundation
was driven by the CEO, CFO and CPO (all
women) to focus on the aged people that live in
homes and rely on hand-outs and donations to
survive. We identified once such home in the
Alexandra Township just three kilometres from
our office where we targeted our assistance and
support.
It was not long after we started working in the
area, that we identified a number of schools in the
area where children attending school did not have
as much as a school bag or a bottle for water.
As on on-going initiative, we provide the home for
the aged in Alexandra with food and basic
necessities to help the aged and the volunteers that
work at this home.
We provided all the children in two schools in
Alexandra with colourful canvas bags and high
quality moulded plastic water bottles to use at
school on a daily basis.
This is an on-going objective of the team at The
Grey Foundation
Our sanitary pad program is driven towards
obtaining the attention at support of individuals
and businesses. The enormity of the situation
spans hundreds of schools around our country and
affects over a 100 000 school girls. In order to
provide a consistent supply to these young school
girls, it requires a village of support and our goal is
to obtain that “village” to help make each month a
comforting one for these learners.
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