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Original Post Date: 2009-03-05 Time: 00:00:03 Posted By: JoAn
Anglo American Chairman's Fund contributes R1 million to aid Soweto Disaster Relief
1 March 2009, Johannesburg:- The Anglo American Chairman's Fund has made a R1-million emergency grant to the Soweto community to assist with disaster relief in areas that were devastated by flash flooding this past week.
Heavy rains on Thursday night caused havoc in certain parts of Soweto, leaving a wake of devastation including the loss of lives, missing persons, and leaving hundreds of families destitute and homeless.
Particularly hard hit have been residents of the informal settlement of Braamfischerville where the SA Red Cross has been supplying blankets and food to 40 households with an average of six persons per household. Funds available to the SA Red Cross for this had, by Friday 27 February, been reduced to R2,000 for this work.
The Anglo American Chairman's Fund contribution of R1 million comes on the heels of Premier Paul Mashatile's urgent request for “humanitarian aid to start flowing to families left destitute by the floods”. The funds will be used to assist the Red Cross to immediately establish soup kitchens and to distribute household food parcels, clothing, blankets and mattresses in all affected areas, reaching approximately 250 families.
These relief efforts will be undertaken in tandem and collaboration with those of state agencies with whom the SA Red Cross has already established joint planning structures.
SA Red Cross Head of Communications and Fundraising, Pumi Nyeni says, “The partnership with the Anglo American Chairman's Fund goes back decades and has recently included substantial emergency grants to assist our work with victims of violence aimed at African foreign nationals in South Africa, as well as for our efforts to combat cholera outbreaks in Limpopo province and the Beit Bridge region in Zimbabwe. Our immediate mission in Soweto will be heavily reliant on this sort of support”.
Head of Anglo American SA and Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman's Fund, Kuseni Dlamini, notes that, “The Anglo American Chairman's Fund has since its inception in the 1950s been careful to make grants based on a long-term view of best practice development. We must, however, always be ready to act when unexpected disasters befall our fellow men and women in South Africa. Working with a reputable and longstanding partner like the SA Red Cross means that we provide relief quickly”.
Dlamini points out that its contribution is part of Anglo American's commitment towards South Africa and its continued engagement with the communities in which it operates. “We strive to become the ‘partner of choice' in all aspects of our business including being a good corporate citizen that is able to make a visible impact of contribution to help improve the lives of all South Africans in need.”
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NOTE TO EDITORS
The Anglo American Chairman's Fund is a dedicated instrument set up by Anglo American to undertake corporate social investment grant-making in South Africa across all developmental sectors and in all parts of the country. The Fund has made grants totalling R70 million in the past year alone. Anglo American was recently voted South Africa’s best grant-maker for the eighth year running by NGOs in the annual Trialogue CSI Survey.
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