Corporate Social Responsibility
The trust was established in 2003 to further entrench the broad participation of disadvantaged communities in the mainstream economy.
It is made up of 11 NGOs including: People Opposing Women Abuse, the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre (TLAC), the Mnquma and Kwa Drabo Trusts, the Young Christian Women’s Association, the Makaota Development Trust and The National Baptist Church.
Together the WIPHOLD Investment Trust and the WIPHOLD NGO Trust account for 32.5% of the group’s shareholding. WIPHOLD was established with the vision of advancing the empowerment of women and by creating new economic models, we have had a significant impact on the lives of our broad-based shareholders and their committees.
Our beneficiaries own 17.5% of WIPHOLD
| Organisation | Focus | Activities |
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National Baptist Church |
To empower women by changing their mindset in the usage of financial instruments and encourage women to do fundraising on a local level. National level: encourage and teach women to buy shares and invest. |
Hold workshops, seminars, informal meetings dealing with social issues. |
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POWA |
To create a safe society that does not tolerate violence against women and where women are powerful, self-restrained, equal and respected. |
Provide therapeutic service to women who have suffered all forms of abuse (including counseling and crisis intervention), provide shelter to abused women, offer legal advice and court preparation, offer meaningful skills training and relevant self-help programmes, offer support services to clients children, provide ongoing training and capacity building to volunteers, offer education awareness programmes to communities, facilitate economic empowerment projects for survivors of abuse, offer prevention programmes. |
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DENOSA (The Democratic Nursing Organisation Of Southern Africa) |
To represent nurses and midwives with influence and authority. |
Empowerment of women nurses (sustainability of their programmes). |
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Kwa Drabo Trust |
To empower women in the rural Centani villages while focusing on four areas, rural farming, research into thoracic cancer, children education and AIDS awareness / education. |
Workshops, seminars, farming on leased land from the headman and pre-school activities. |
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SASBO |
Finance union |
Support and empowerment of women in the financial sector. |
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YWCA |
To affirm women in skills training, economic empowerment and leadership development. Seeks to address all social injustice and targets mostly marginalised women and children. |
Provides training programmes, participates in effective advocacy work, mobilizes women’s collective power for action. |
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The Thusanang Development And Training Project |
Women’s skills and business training and development. Job creation and HIV / AIDS fieldwork |
Oversee’s more than 70 small businesses in informal settlements outside rural towns impacting directly on the lives of over 800 women. One-on-one counseling. |
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Tshwarangang Legal Advocacy Centre |
Works towards eliminating the victimisation of women by the legal system and to make the legal system a vehicle of social change for women by influencing policy and legislation through advocacy, education, training and research. |
Provide education desks in 3 Gauteng courts. Training of maintenance investigators, maintenance officers and clerks, conduct legal information for empowerment (LIFE) seminars at 10 informal settlements and conduct gender training workshops in all 9 provinces. |
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Thandanani Association |
Committed to protecting and promoting the well-being of children. |
Shelters for AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children. Child care workers provide care and comfort to all sick, orphaned and abandoned children at hospitals. Outings for children. |
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Tshepang Educare Trust |
To provide educare programmes to rural communities by providing women in underserved areas on farms and small towns with ongoing training, preparing children for school and socialising them for democracy. |
Training women to deliver early childhood development (ECD) programmes to children. 126 ECD sites are up and running, 225 women are in various levels of training, 4212 children are in development programmes. |
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