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featuring strongest, followed by education and agriculture.
Champions where they made history by ending their campaign
More on the CSVM appears on pages 16 to 17.
at the Round of 16. More on this story on page 80 to 85.
Elevating community
service infrastructure
and health care systems
Support our communities
through Sasol for Good
Through Sasol for Good, our flagship employee volunteering
Our commitment to elevating community service
and giving programme, we rallied over 600 employees, including
infrastructure and health care systems resulted in
Sasol’s President and CEO and other senior executives, to
the installation of solar infrastructure solutions in six
support our Mandela Day event, where we packed over 121 000
Metsimaholo community health Centres in the Free State.
meals which were distributed to Early Childhood Development
This was done in an effort to provide uninterrupted
Centres (ECD) across the country. In North America, we hosted
health services and to mitigate the adverse impact of
our second annual Community Week event, which is dedicated
load shedding. We also completed the maintenance and
to benefitting neighbouring communities through company
improvement of the Komatipoort Clinic and the Cromati
and employee-directed engagements. Over 600 employees
Combined School in Mpumalanga. We also completed the
participated in various community events, creating 800 STEM
construction of the Inhassoro Vocational Training Centre
kits for our Partner in Education schools and contributing
which will assist in increasing the pool of artisan skills
over US $35 000 through Sasol Gives, an online matching
in Mozambique.
contributions programme for US employees. More information
about our Sasol for Good initiatives can be found on pages
In Qatar, we continue to partner with the Ministry of Social
78, 104, 112, 120, 151 and 152.
Development and Family to collaborate on the Accessible
Qatar initiative including the Definitely Able initiatives to
Aligned with our rigorous monitoring and evaluation framework,
support people with disabilities. More details can be found
we are assessing all our programmes in South Africa and
on pages 76, 98, 109, 115 and 132.
Mozambique to reaffirm the effectiveness, validity and results
of each initiative. This enables us to align our programmes with
Contributing to community
environment programmes
our business requirements, stakeholder needs and country
priorities, and to identify gaps and opportunities to be pursued.
We are extremely proud of our Community Environment
We take pride in the contributions we make through our social
programmes which resulted in the planting of 1 350
impact programmes; however, we recognise the importance of
spekboom trees, 200 indigenous trees and six fruit trees in
data to ensure we maximise the outcomes for beneficiaries. To
Leandra, Kinross, Bethal and Charl Cilliers. In North America,
this end, our Programme Verification Report (an independent
we relaunched the 1 000 Trees in 1 000 Days programme
report which is part of monitoring and evaluating our
and planted over 175 trees within the first two events. To
programmes), highlighted that most of our programmes
help clean up the environment, our communities collected
are planned and run effectively, making a positive impact,
a massive 120 139 tons of recyclable waste. We also reached
but there are limited partners who contribute towards their
over 170 000 people online in Qatar with our educational
implementation. For this reason, we will be eagerly pursuing
programme on the Sasol E-Nature and Accessibility Qatar
partnerships that are in line with our implementation approach.
websites. More on this from page 102, 110, 141 and 149.
This feedback is important for us as we continue our work, given
Supporting women’s
empowerment through
sport sponsorships
that business, government, and civil society share a common
interest in contributing positively and meaningfully towards
improving the lives of society’s most vulnerable groups.
Our sponsorship for women’s development in sport is
Looking forward, partnerships will be a critical lever in our
now in its 14th year and has has yielded positive results with
strategy to ensure we amplify the outcomes and impacts of
continued growth in the Sasol Women’s League. Thousands
our efforts, because our collective strengths will serve as a
of girls show a keen interest in professional sports from
powerful force to catalyse change in our host communities
a young age which contributes to the talent pool of the
across our various geographies. Our dedicated global team
national teams. Sasol’s longstanding brand sponsorship role
and communities stand ready to deliver ongoing shared value,
also contributed to Banyana Banyana qualifying for the 2023
affirming our commitment to remain a force for social good.
FIFA Women’s World Cup as Women’s Africa Cup of Nations
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