Making an Impact, The SA Taxi Way
Making an Impact, The SA Taxi Way
Ubuntu is a big part of who we are as South Africans, and SA Taxi understands that. That is why we have the SA Taxi Foundation, our corporate social investment arm of SA Taxi that is responsible for all socio-economic development contributions, partnerships, and initiatives.
Over the years, we have helped provide safe and dignified ablution facilities to school children. In collaboration with RoundAbout Water Solutions; we helped fund a fun way for children from the Magogong Community to generate clean and safe drinking water for their families. By playing on a roundabout built above a borehole, the children reduce waterborne diseases by providing clean water.
The Foundation also seeks to empower South Africans in light of the high rates of unemployment. This was done through the launch of a tyre fitment centre in Mbombela, Mpumalanga. The centre, which was launched in association with the TOPSTAR Taxi Association, provides the perfect place for taxi operators to ensure their tyres are in tip-top shape without leaving the rank while providing employment to local youth.
Our long-term collaboration with the Home of Hope in Hillbrow has been the Foundation’s most fruitful partnership. The home offers a safe haven for young girls who have found themselves in the dark web of sex trafficking and drug abuse. Since 2019, the Foundation has assisted the home with school shoes and socks for the 31 girls of school-going age, painting the house and fixing the roof which was damaged by heavy rains in 2020, and most recently, donating desktop computers to the home to help the residents gain computer skills so they can improve their lives.
Through continued partnership, the Foundation intends to make even greater changes in the lives of the girls and women from the home.
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