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LegalWiseCorporate
Social Investment
Report
July 2010 – June 2011
Corporate Social Investment
INTRODUCTION
LegalWise's Corporate Social Investment for the 12-month period ending June
2011 focused on selecting initiatives that we are passionate about and
establishing long lasting relationships with our partners and beneficiaries.
Through pooling our resources with other partners, we have made a greater
impact in addressing national issues such as poverty, unemployment and access
to quality education.
The target set for our BBBEE scorecard in the category of Socio-Economic
Development was exceeded and significant progress was made towards
creating employment through Enterprise Development.
We told “The LegalWise Way” stories through local media, the WiseUp
(Member's newsletter) and the In Voice (internal newsletter)
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LEGALWISE CSI PROFILE
Main focus areas
> Youth development
> Education
> Job creation
Flagship projects
> – a skills
development /support programme for
underprivileged children from Soweto
> – a skills
development/support programme for
underprivileged children from all over
Gauteng
> – a
youth literacy programme
>
– an initiative to reduce high rates
of unemployment at the bottom of the
economic pyramid
> – an initiative to create
employment
Key partnerships
> Ambassadors in Sport
> Little Legends Foundation
> The Townships Project
> The Nelson Mandela Foundation
> Breadline Africa
> Siyabonga Africa Bakeries
> LegalWise staff
LegalWise Soweto Hope Academy
LegalWise Little Legends
The LegalWise Little Legends Library
The Townships Project: (Micro-Franchising
project)
LegalWise Bakeries
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HIGHLIGHTS OF CSI INITIATIVE
External Bursaries8 external bursaries were awarded to students studying law degrees during the period, including four 1st years, one 2nd year, two 3rd years and one 4th year. All students showed satisfactory results.
Patrick Kabamba, BCom Accounting at UNISA Patrick, a former security guard based at LegalWise Head Office, completed his studies and graduated with a distinction in May 2011. Patrick is now permanently employed as an Operations Analyst at Central Services.
EDUCATION
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Internal Bursaries25 LegalWise staff members received bursaries to study work-related degrees/courses, including LLB, Business Administration, HR, Mediation, Sales and Marketing and Debt Counselling.
Bianca Oelofse and Elsje Van Der Mescht, both 1st year paralegal diploma students from the Pretoria branch posted above average results. Dustin Thompson from Bloemfontein completed a course in Advanced Labour Law and Tidimalo Sinugo from Debt Counselling and Madri Myburg from Pretoria obtained their Debt Counselling certificates.
MasekhabePatrick
Kayla
Scholarships56 children of LegalWise employees received scholarships during the period. Star performers were Tryston De Kock (father Wynton De Kock from the Call Centre) who scored an average of 78% in grade 6, Khetha Mngadi (father Jabulani Nhlapho from Customer Care) who scored an average of 80% in grade 1 and Samishka Munsamy (mother Anusha Munsamy from Durban) who scored an average of 87% in grade. 5.
Bianca Elsie Dustin Tidimalo Madri
Ketha Samishka
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LegalWise Youth Literacy Programme
LegalWise, in partnership with The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Breadline Africa, embarked on a youth literacy programme in
February to convert old shipping containers into libraries for underprivileged school children around the country. LegalWise fully funded
a library at the Little Legends Foundation in Randburg and partly funded 9 others, at an underprivileged school in each province. An
estimated 9500 learners in some of the poorest communities will benefit – for the first time they will have access to a fully functioning
library. (The official launch of the libraries will take place in honour of Mandela Day during the course of July and August 2011).
“It is always a special pleasure to talk to children about my favourite pastime: reading. That joy (of reading) has been mine all my life, and
it is one I wish for all South Africans” - Nelson Mandela.
SPONSORSHIPS
A shipping container in theprocess of being convertedinto the library
LegalWise staff collected over3 500 books for theLegalWise Little Legends Library
The shelving wasvarnished by students
from Trinity College
The LegalWise Little Legends Library
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LegalWise Soweto Hope Academy
LegalWise has been in partnership with Ambassadors in Sport (AIS) for the past 5 years with the aim of “bringing hope through soccer” to
underprivileged children. There are currently 11 girls and 19 boys in the LegalWise Soweto Hope Academy, situated at the Sizwile School
for Deaf Children in Dobsonville.
The Academy children follow a curriculum with activities to assist them with school homework, tutoring for special study needs and soccer
skills. The programme includes assistance from Social Workers from the University of Johannesburg and a feeding scheme.
Lucas Radebe with Coach Cameron and Jerry, a parent
The end result
The children of the Sizwile School getting involved
LegalWise volunteers
Coach Cameron with the LegalWise Soweto Hope
Academy squad
From this...
Fun on the field
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Grassing project
LegalWise invested in uplifting the Sizwile School for Deaf Children in Dobsonville, Soweto by developing their first sports field and
repairing their borehole, which had not been in use for 20 years. On 19th February, 400 volunteers, including LegalWise staff, AIS coaches
and Hope Academy children, staff and children from the school, community members and a celebrity or two, gathered at the school to
tackle the enormous task of planting 6000 square meters of grass, which eventually took a week to complete. A partnership was formed
with a golf course contractor to level the field, spray for bugs and fertilise the grass and a few weeks later, we were overjoyed to have a
playable sports field. LegalWise repaired an industrial lawnmower, implemented an irrigation system and empowered an ex-prisoner
with the skills to maintain the field.
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LegalWise Community Match for a Day
For the 3rd year running, LegalWise was the main sponsor of the LegalWise Match for a Day event, held at the Legends Sports Arena in
Randburg in September 2010.
This is Ambassadors in Sport's premier football fundraising event, where 25 teams competed in a 5-a-side 18-hour marathon football
experience. Funds raised went towards the AIS Hope Academy programme countrywide.
Jan Luwes and Matthew Booth with the LegalWise Soweto Hope Academy children
LegalWise CentralServices in action
Teams in action
LegalWise Benoni Ladiessoccer team
Skills at a young age
LegalWise Junior Freestyle Tournament
LegalWise was the main sponsor of the LegalWise Junior Freestyle tournament for the 2nd year running. Freestyle heats took place for
young boys and girls at 5 shopping malls around Gauteng and the final was held at a spectacular event at the Wanderers Sports Club in
November 2010.
Matthew and Sonja Booth, Lee Sharpe (former Manchester United player) and many more celebrities attended this unforgettable event.
Funds were raised for the on-going work of Ambassadors in Sport in developing young talent, who would otherwise not have had the
opportunity, both on and off the sports field.
A contender at oneof the heats
Sibusiso, one of the winners,being congratulated by
Matthew Booth
LegalWise staff with the Bafana Bafana jersey we won on auction
to raise funds for AIS
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LegalWise Little Legends
In January 2011, LegalWise formed a partnership with the Little Legends Foundation, a non-
profit organisation dedicated to providing disadvantaged children with the opportunity to be
part of a football skills development programme, uniting over 250 young stars of all abilities
and cultures from areas such as Protea Glen, Sandton, Zola, Eldorado Park, Bryanston,
Katlehong and Alexandra.
The Little Legends Foundation is based at a community sports arena in Randburg, Gauteng.
The programme utilises football as a tool to mentor and nurture disadvantaged children and
incorporates feeding schemes, life skills, health and educational training and support.
The primary focus is to address the critical aspect of a lack of access to decent education. As
part of the youth literacy programme, LegalWise fully funded a containerised library for the
children of the Little Legends Foundation and invested in a bakery in the community of
Eldorado Park to provide employment for parents of some of the children.
Skills development off the fieldLesley Haynes with the Little Legends from Eldorado Park
Integration of children from different backgrounds
The Real LegalWise Soccer Tournament 2010
The Real LegalWise soccer tournament, held in the community of Orlando East, Soweto has
become a much anticipated event amongst the local community and community leaders,
who have taken ownership of ensuring that it is well attended, incident free and thoroughly
enjoyed.
For the third consecutive year, the tournament was held over a period of 6 days in December
2010. The inclement weather this year did not put a damper on the spirits of the 16 teams
that participated or the absolute elation of the winners!
Tony Fornali with the winnersThe LegalWise Nelspruit soccer team
Fans of the Real LegalWiseSoccer Tournament
LegalWise management opening the tournament
with the first teams to play
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Community Rewards Programme
LegalWise invited our Members to nominate community development
projects in which they are personally involved to receive funding.
The Madeira Home for the Aged in Queenstown was selected to receive a
donation to purchase new bed linen for their residents and the Umtata Street
Child Programme received funding to provide pottery and leather making
skills training and materials for 12 young people to generate their own
income.
EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERING
CANSA Shavathon 2011
LegalWise staff showed their support for those affected by cancer by taking
part in the annual CANSA Shavathon. All branches and departments
participated and raised much needed funds for the support of cancer
sufferers and their families. The funds raised by
staff was matched rand-for-rand by LegalWise.
Liza
Nellie
Nicola
Jaco and RichardJan
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Madeira Home
Umtata Street Children
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Blanket Distribution - Youth Day 2011
LegalWise staff donated 1100 blankets to 43 community
centres catering for the needs of orphans and vulnerable
children across the country.
All branches and departments participated and some
pooled their resources and collected food and clothing to
make an even greater impact for those in need.
Bandana Day
On 12 October 2010, LegalWise staff participated in Bandana Day by
purchasing bandanas to wear to work in support of The Sunflower Fund,
which aims to raise awareness about the ongoing need for bone marrow
stem cell donors. LegalWise subsidised 50% of the cost of the bandanas on
behalf of LegalWise staff.
Payroll Giving
LegalWise staff donated a total of R 29 657 from their salaries to the Giving
Organisation, which supports mainly children's charitable organisations.
Staff are able to nominate which charity
they wish to support. Staff donations
were matched rand-for-rand by LegalWise.
LegalWise Bellville
Tshepo ya Bana "Hope of the Children", Muldersdrift
Hasie se Holte crèche, Pretoria
Tshepang Program for orphans and vulnerable children, Roodepoort
Sunshine Place Child and Youth Care
Centre, East London
Casual Day
The LegalWise theme for national Causal Day on Friday 3rd September 2010
was “dress like your favourite diva”.
Staff purchased Casual Day stickers in support of this initiative to raise funds
for the physically and mentally disabled people of South Africa.
LegalWise matched staff donations rand-for-rand and the funds raised were
donated to the Alma School for Disabled in Pretoria.LegalWise Florida
LegalWise Bloemfontein
LegalWise Witbank
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ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
KZN Blind and Deaf Society Hydroponics project
The staff at the Pietermaritzburg branch invested in the construction of an additional hydroponics tunnel to expand the existing project of
the KZN Blind and Deaf Society. This will allow for higher income generation to service the operational costs of the Society for persons with
disabilities in the community of Pietermaritzburg. The PMB staff were touched by the programmes of the Society and amazed at their shift
towards becoming self sufficient. The first crop of cucumbers, planted in December 2010 and harvested in May 2011, generated an
income of R20 000.
Sizwile bakery
As part of LegalWise's commitment to uplift the Sizwile School for Deaf Children in Dobsonville, Soweto, we established a bakery at the school to create an income generation opportunity for 5 previously unemployed parents of the children at the school. The bakery supplies the school with fresh bread and rolls on a daily basis to feed the 270 school children and has gained the support of the local community. There are plans to expand operations to provide fresh bread cheaper to other schools in the area.
Trevor with his staff from LegalWise PMB and two of the beneficiaries
The ladies of the Sizwile bakery
Eldorado Park Bakery
The “Buy More” bakery was established in the community of Eldorado
Park, through the LegalWise partnership with the Little Legends
Foundation. The bakery provides an income generation opportunity
for 5 previously unemployed parents of the children in the
Foundation.
The bakery employees have identified 6 children from the area who
are malnourished and provide
them with 3 meals a day.
M o s t h e a r t e n i n g i s t h e
transformation noted in one of the
bakery employees, an elderly man
by the name of Donny, who has
found a new lease on life.The 5 owners of the Buy More Bakery
with their trainers and mentors
Donny
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The Townships Project: Micro-Franchising Project
In January 2011, LegalWise invested in a unique, long term job creation project initiated by The Townships Project (a Canadian NGO
operating in Khayelitsha, Cape Town for the past 13 years) and the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business. The challenge is
to build a job creation engine to reduce high rates of unemployment at the bottom of the economic pyramid through the concept of
micro-franchising. Micro-franchising is a natural development in that it systematises, brands and replicates tiny businesses, which can be
funded through microfinance and enterprise development funds – effectively permitting a person to buy a job.
For the 2nd year running, LegalWise harvested new
business ideas from over 600 entries submitted by
our Members. 10 finalists were chosen and
attended and intensive 2-day workshop at Head
Office, facilitated by Jaco van der Westhuizen (New
Business Development Manager), Tony Fornali and
a number of heads of departments.
Paulus Gertze from Steinkopf was selected as the
winner for his invention of 'Granny's Yellow Magic'
products produced from the Kraalbos, an
indigenous plant from the Namaqualand.
LegalWise sponsored the top 3 business owners to
attend a Business Management course through
Unisa and will mentor Paulus in establishing his
business.
The One Great Business Idea 2010 - Small Enterprise Development Competition
LegalWise team with the 10 business finalists at Head Office
LegalWise focused on finding successful small
business owners within our townships and
beyond, which will be show-cased and
workshoped at a conference to be held in
Khayelitsha at the end of August 2011. A variety
of stakeholders have been engaged from the
DTI, Social Development, Community Leaders,
Franchising Specialists, Micro financers, Asset
Based Community Development Specialists, CSI
and Enterprise Development funders and
academics with a common purpose to create
jobs in our townships.
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