CORPORATE SOCIAL INVESTMENT
As embodied in our Strategic Intent, we endeavour in various ways to ensure the wellbeing and
advancement of our employees as well as the local communities and society in which we operate (as
also reported in the Human Capital Report on our website at
).
Our initiatives include:
providing access to potable water, which is a particular priority;
providing medical facilities to some communities and funding local government hospitals;
in Malawi and Zambia, supporting government strategies to tackle micronutrient deficiencies by
fortifying our sugar produced for direct consumption with Vitamin A, thereby contributing to
improving public health;
funding maintenance and equipment for local schools or community organisations, and
supporting government and corporate education related campaigns, including national literacy
programmes and teacher support;
enterprise development, and
contributing to local sports, arts and culture.
In addition to the significant economic benefits that accrue to the governments of the countries in which
we have operations through direct and indirect taxes, which are dealt with in the financial sections of the
2015 Integrated Annual Report (which is available on our website on
, we
contribute to our local communities through various corporate social investment initiatives, often
providing essential community support and, where local authorities are unable to do so, filling gaps in
local infrastructure, either alone, or in collaboration with international donors and funders, governments
and non-governmental bodies, as demonstrated by the projects detailed further on.
Illovo provides access to health care to all its employees and local communities where no
medical facilities exist through a network of group-run primary health care clinics and hospitals.
In 2014/15, we spent R94 million on providing primary and secondary health care and providing
occupational health, HIV and AIDs, malaria and TB programmes, working closely with national
health initiatives in our countries of operation.
