MBOMBELA – Imbumba Foundation’s Caring4Girls project was the runner-up in the 2014 Centre for Public Service Innovation awards held last Friday at Emperors Palace Hotel in Johannesburg.
“We are humbled and very happy that we have managed to obtain second position, which is a huge achievement because it was our first time our Caring4Girls project was nominated to take part in such a competition since the Imbumba Foundation was established in 2010 in a small village called Luphisi outside Mbombela,’ said the founder and CEO of the Imbumba Foundation, Mr Richard Mabaso.
The Caring4Girls project aims to touch the lives of young girls from disadvantaged communities by providing them with sanitary towels.
It was prompted by the discovery that close to 90 per cent of the girls in the country stay at home during their periods because they don’t have sanitary towels.
“To have made it this far has motivated us a lot but we still have a long way to go in changing the lives of young girls, not only in our province but all over the country. We are glad to know that there are people who recognise the good work we are doing.
I am confident that next year we will obtain first position,” said Mabaso.
As part of their fund-raising strategy, this publication learnt that Mabaso, together with one of our very own mountain climbers,
Mr Sibusiso Vilane, have for the past three years gone further and climbed the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro in order to raise funds for this good cause.
