Category Archives: Trust

Volkswagen Community Trust (VWCT)

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Volkswagen Community Trust forms part of Volkswagen SA’s Corporate Social Investment activities. Throughout the world, Volkswagen is passionate about making people’s lives better and helping communities; and so the VW Community Trust is passionate about helping the lives of South Africans and building up communities.

Situated in the Volkswagen Uitenhage plant in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, the VW Community Trust strives to make a sustainable difference to communities and the shaping of South Africa.

The VWCT has 4 focus areas:
Education (Currently no bursaries being offered)
Youth Development
Health, Community and Wellbeing
Employee Volunteerism

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Wilderness Wildlife Trust (WWT)

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The Wilderness Wildlife Trust, an independent non-profit entity associated with the Wilderness Group, supports a wide variety of projects across Africa. The projects and researchers that it supports address the needs of existing wildlife populations, seek solutions to save endangered species and provide education and training for local people and their communities.

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Sibaya Community Trust (SCT)

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The Sibaya Community Trust, formerly known ads the Afrisun Kzn Community Development Trust, was formed in April 1998 with the intention of being a catalyst for social philanthropy in the area. As a caring corporate citizen with a major focus on service, we strive to make a difference in our community by implementing improvements to existing facilities and infrastructure, as well as undertaking development projects.

Projects in the Social and Community Development, Health and Education sectors are considered, and the Trust is audited annually.

Our commitment to overcoming poverty and developing our communities stems from an overwhelming concern for people living in and around our communities for whom daily life is an ongoing struggle.

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Mohair Empowerment Trust (MET)

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For the better part of a decade, the industry’s Empowerment Trust has been working tirelessly in its efforts to establish black commercial Angora goat farmers within the world’s most prolific mohair producing country.

The aim was is to not only promote black economic empowerment but to increase the supply of this rare natural fibre – one of the most sought-after natural fibres globally.

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Maize Trust (MT)

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The Maize Trust was founded in August 1998 to promote the South African maize industry. The Trust serves the industry through financial support for institutions and organisations with programmes aimed at market and production related research. The secondary objectives of the Trust are to fund the assimilation and dissemination of market information and to broaden market access for the benefit of the maize industry.

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Environmental and Developmental Agency Trust (EDA)

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The Environmental and Development Agency (EDA) Trust is a non-governmental organisation with over 20 years of experience in integrated rural development in the communal areas of South Africa. EDA works with rural communities and organisations in the Herschel and Maluti sub-regions of the Eastern Cape, in the southern and central districts of the Northern Province and in the Bronkhorstspruit district in Mpumalanga/Gauteng. EDA is affiliated to a number of rural networks of NGOs and CBOs, and will work to widen the discussions on traditional leaders and institutions into these networks, and to encourage broad participation in the popular formulation of policy at all levels.

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Read Educational Trust (RET)

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Read Educational Trust is a South African NGO that operates broadly in the education and literacy sectors, specifically in educator training and the provision of school resources.

Established in 1979 and funded by both local and foreign donors as well as the private sector, READ works alongside the Department of Education to implement teacher training and literacy projects in schools.

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South African Winter Cereal Industry Trust (SAWCIT)

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SAWCIT is committed to support research projects that prioritise the development of new technology and methodologies, and the development of environmentally adapted winter cereal cultivars with the desired qualitites, that will optimise the production processes in harmony with the environment, and to support research of any other matters that enhance the industry and winter cereals in general.

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