Our annual celebration event for our Community Transport Support Programme took place on 19 March 2018 at the Nelson Mandela Boulevard Garden Court Hotel. This year we extended invitations to 34 organisations on our transport programme, which is run in conjunction with Golden Arrow Bus Services, as well as to many of the NGOs that we fund in the Western Cape. Over 120 representatives from diverse fields came together to engage with our theme: “The winds of change – Harnessing Hope”.

Our annual event of the Community Transport Support Programme, 34 organisations that benefit from our programme through Golden Arrow Bus Services were represented.

We recently visited some of the projects in Mpumalanga that are funded by HCI Foundation.

On Saturday, 13 May 2017, the HCI Foundation Bursary Team hosted an Amazing Race event for funded students from UKZN.

The HCI Foundation National Peer to Peer Mentoring Programme has grown significantly since 2013, and is now active at 12 universities nationally.

Two HCI Foundation bursary recipients are really making a difference to their own and their families’ lives by running in marathons every weekend.

There was excitement at LEAP 3 School in Linbro Park, Alexandra, when Bursary Department staff visited to talk to Grade 12 learners about applying to the Foundation for tertiary level bursaries for 2016 academic year.

Following the workshop, community engagement staff were able to spend time on site with several KZN based organisations and see some of the successes and ongoing challenges of their work for themselves.

As part of a new initiative by the Foundation, on 26 May members of thirty organisations from KwaZulu-Natal, who receive funding through the Foundation’s community engagement programme, met at a workshop held in the Elangeni Maharani hotel in Durban.

This programme has grown since last year with 11 participating universities where senior HCI Foundation funded students are meeting on a monthly basis with first years.