Through its Corporate Social Investment (CSI) programme, Capitec Bank helps the community by recognising schools that require assistance. Capitec Bank collaborates with Cash Built to provide the necessary supplies and paint for the schools.
Each Capitec Bank branch works with a certain school, and each branch receives R20,000 to pinpoint schools that need supplies or that require support.
Capitec bank branch in Soshanguve Block BB started their Corporate Social Investment project with Memezelo Secondary School.
They helped the school by rearranging the library accordingly. So far, that is the only school they are dealing with as a branch in Soshanguve Block BB. This branch has also helped a Creche in Hammanskraal by renovating the classes.
They now have another upcoming project where they will be dealing with grade 12’s. “We will be doing training, more of an up-skill or life skill project, whereby we talk to the Grade 12’s and prepare them for the future after matriculation.
“We have a boom that we will be using,” said the Branch Manager, Beauty Mashaba. Every Capitec branch will identify in their area the schools they will be working with.
Mashaba said that the teachers reach out to them when they need support for their school and state the things, they need from the branches that are close by. Beauty said that the school’s SGB had contacted a different Capitec branch for assistance with various tasks, including roofing repairs.
To assist with the budget, the Soshanguve Block BB branch worked in collaboration with the other branch.
“We combined the two budgets for that branch, so we did it together. The work needed more than R20,000, they approached us, and we said, ‘Okay, cool, we will be on board,'” said Beauty Mashaba.
They also helped by giving out sanitary pads and toiletries to the grade 11’s last year. Sometimes, the Capitec staff sacrifices their workdays in order to volunteer their time to assist those in need.
“From our side, we hardly ever experience challenges. “With challenges, we haven’t faced much because our department that deals with the CSI is always willing to help, they just want to jump in and say, how can we help,” said Beauty Mashaba.