Sponsors

 

The Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI) is an international non-profit foundation committed to healthcare education and information. MKI acts from the premise that healthcare is a human right and has designed programmes which aim to improve the quality and humanitarian values of life, especially in developing countries.

 

The healthcare information programme is aimed at making available trustworthy information on healthcare to healthcare professionals and organisations worldwide. MKI has set up a number of Health Information Centres (HIC) around South Africa. The main aim of the centres is to provide healthcare education and healthcare information to the general public from all walks of life to promote individual and community health, taking into consideration their individual cultural sensitivities. Cotlands has partnered with MKI on this project and has established a HIC at our community centre in Diepkloof, Soweto.

 

The centres offer a selection of training courses which teach different life skills, and provide for contacts with relevant support and information. Each centre also houses a simple public health library. Priority has been given to practical publications such as: child health, primary health care, family planning, primary HIV/AIDS care, common skin diseases, etc

 

De Beers

 

Message from the De Beers Fund

 

The De Beers Fund thanks Cotlands for the privilege of partnering with this exemplary childcare organisation, and specifically with the Soweto Home-Based Care and Counselling Project. 

 

Our doing so forms part of an annual corporate social investment undertaking that sees De Beers and its operations working with over 150 organisations throughout South Africa with investments in people and communities in whom we believe, in a country confident in her liberty. 

 

De Beers has never regarded CSI as frivolous activity and has acted in accordance with a philosophy summed up in 1954 by then De Beers Chairman Sir Ernest Oppenheimer: “…the purpose of the company is to make profits for its shareholders, but to do so in a way that makes a real and lasting contribution to the countries and communities in which it operates”. 

 

For additional information on the work of the De Beers Fund, please visit www.debeersgroup.com

 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LIST

 

On behalf of the children we have known, those we know and those we are yet to know, we gratefully thank each business, individual, corporation and foundation that so generously contributed to the Cotlands’ services. Your assistance has built a strong foundation of support, and we are so grateful for these gifts. Funder Acknowledement

 

Company

Type of Support

Impact

Corporate Social Investment

Funding received from these partners has provided us with a means to assist more children and expand our scope of service.

As a growing organization who’s services are reaching an increasing number of beneficiaries, sustainability has become an important issue for us. We have to ensure that the needs of the present generation are met, without compromising our ability to do the same for future generations. In partnership with the funders listed herein, we remain committed to filling the medico-socio-economic gaps in communities by providing a range of services to ensure food security, reverse the spread of HIV / Aids, create jobs and foster self-sustainability. To achieve this, we have ensured that all our outreach projects include food garden initiatives, income generating projects and educational components.

Anglo American Chairman's Fund

Long-term support towards residential care programmes for children up to the age of 14, who have been abandoned, abused, neglected, orphaned or who are affected by or infected with HIV

Spar South Rand

Mutual and Federal

Long term support towards national projects

Savccio Holdings

Support towards special education project

Momentum Fund

Long term support towards Cotlands home based care programme in Hlabisa and Substantial support towards the nutrition programme in Eatern Cape

Trusts and Foundations

Len Smith Foundation

Long term support

GS Elkin Trusts

Long term support

 

  • Thank you to all the community groups, old aged homes and individuals who donated clothes and so lovingly knitted garments and toys, as well as all the other goods donated over the year
  • Thank you to all the individuals that supported Cotlands each month via credit card and monthly debit order
  • Thank you to all the individuals and corporate companies who made financial donations and donations in kind to Cotlands during the year
  • Thank you to all the Cotlands volunteers for their time and dedication

 

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