Corporate Social Responsibility

The first initiative was a donation to the Thembalami Care Centre, located on the border of Alexandra in Gauteng, which provides sheltered accommodation to frail pensioners of limited means, primarily persons receiving a social or disability grant from the Government.

Over a two month period staff donated enough non-perishable food items and toiletries to fill an entire car boot, and a handover was done just before Christmas.

The letter below was received from Thembalami:

On behalf of the staff members and residents of Thembalami Care Centre we would like to wish you a prosperous and happy new year!

Whilst I was on leave during December 2009, I was informed by Matron Paulina that your organisation delivered boxes of groceries. I therefore would like to make use of the opportunity to express our appreciation for your kind donation. We already utilised some of the tin stuff towards a function at the Care Centre and some other items were also useful.

Donations like yours go a long way in helping to provide and care for our less fortunate residents in our care.

Thank you so much for considering our Care Centre as part of your outreach program.

I hope that we are going to work well together during this year.

Kind regards,

Elize Raath
Complex Manager


IRBA CSR committee members Henriette Fortuin (third from left) and Kokeleco Gaelejwe (far right) at the handover to Thembalami staff on 23 December		An entire bootload of groceries donated by the IRBA staff

Jan Mar 2010

IRBA staff once again responded generously to a request for donations of food, newspapers and accessories to the local Sebenza (Edenvale) branch of the SPCA, and we were able to deliver another car-boot load full of goodwill.

Pictured here with just a small portion of the donated goods are (L-R) Denise Beattie (SPCA); Joanne Johnston and Khanyisa Makhuzeni, both from IRBAs CSR committee.