problem. Only then will we respond. But sometimes before he or she makes the statement and we hear about, say, a tsunami in Indonesia, an earthquake in Haiti, an earthquake in Nepal, a typhoon in the Philippines, I put my teams on standby. Usually Africa comes first. MONEY MATTERS? “My spiritual teacher said, ‘You will never need to look for
The relief of suffering - a mother feeding a child, restoring sight to the blind - when a person has cataracts and they open and they can see. Or they can hear you because of a hearing aid. It’s priceless.
money. People will come to you. You’ll never have to ask for money.’ We never have to go to people to ask for funds. We have no need for fund raisers in our organisation.
the flood response by coordinating multiple stakeholders, with partnerships across political parties, race, and class to
“Things just happen. Everything falls into place. The teacher
reach isolated communities.
said, ‘things will work out for you’ - and they do”. CSI, ETHICS, ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY AND KNYSNA FIRE RESPONSE AND CAPE WATER CRISIS -
PERSONAL VALUES
DIVERSITY IN ACTION
We spoke about how Corporate Social Investment (CSI) is
The Gift of the Givers responded to the 2017 Knysna fires
evolving from ‘ticking boxes’ to meaningful engagement
with medical teams, food for firefighters, and essential
and corporates in South Africa are developing a purposeful
supplies and set up a warehouse operation in the Checkers
CSI focus:
parking lot to coordinate massive aid distribution. This was diversity in action with teams of all backgrounds
“CSI - we don’t just tick the box anymore. Now the CEOs
working together.
call and ask for us to take them and their staff to be on site to see. To feel what it is like to be on the ground. Big
They responded to the Western Cape water crisis by drilling
companies like Sibanye-Stillwater, Bonitas, FNB, see
238 boreholes at a cost of R19-million, saving farming
first-hand where the CSI money is going. They feel the
communities and livestock; and successfully navigated
words of the people.
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