First Jet Club Community Awards
Four projects aimed at improving the lives of others in their communities were winners of R30 000 each in the first annual Jet Club Community Awards. The award ceremony took place in Johannesburg on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at The Castle, Kyalami.
The winners have one thing in common - they are all unrecognised leaders who were nominated by their communities.
The four winners are:-
Ms Nelly Mosiane, the CSR director of Edcon handed out a surprise Highly Commended prize of R10 000, to the Makgoba Environmental Club for their inspiring work.
Mr Assie Boshoff, Jet CE says, "Our aim was to celebrate people doing good deeds and to reward them. We wanted to offer recognition with a token financial reward to an organisation, project or programme that is promoting social justice and equity, and fighting poverty and prejudice. In this, the first year of these Awards, we have truly succeeded in finding worthy recipients."
Nominations were received from all countries where Jet Club has stores and over a million members, which are South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.