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To commemorate the 67 years of Mandela's life spent fighting for equality, The SASKO team joined many South Africans on Monday 18 July 2016 in donating 67 minutes of their time to help others. The SASKO team mobilised their head office and all 12 of their bakeries across the country with one purpose in mind: To yield their butter knives while making sandwiches and share the goodness in honour of Nelson Mandela. The bakeries spent the morning spreading joy with the SASKO bread truck delivering lunch, on what also marked day one of the new term at primary schools - where poverty and hunger is still a big problem in education. More than 16,000 sandwiches were distributed from 21 SASKO depots around the country and participating bakeries delivered to Early Childhood Development Centres and Churches in their surrounding communities....

The Reach For A Dream Foundation, together with Wimpy and Pick n Pay, launched Slipper Day at Wimpy, Mall of Africa. Children were entertained at a fun-filled morning with breakfast, clowns and an assortment of enchanted castle and dragon cakes.

Grade R learners at Ellerton Primary School in Three Anchor Bay were excited to receive a donation of a brand new carpet for their classroom from local business Florstore OnTrend last week.

Thales partnered with The Community Chest of the Western Cape to award bursaries to six learners studying towards mathematics, science and technology related degrees.

In September 2015, SASKO launched its SASKO Siyasizana Daycare Project to assist daycares in Tembisa in receiving much-needed items for their facilities. In five months, 350 participating daycares collected 300,000 SASKO bread bags. To acknowledge their hard work and perseverance, SASKO awarded 1,385 prizes at the first Prize Giving on 10 March 2016.

In partnership with I'langa Mall and German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Kruger Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism (KLCBT) organised a CSI Expo in Nelspruit.

In its endeavour to ensure children in South Africa are more cautious on our roads, Momentum launched its Be Seen scholar patrol safety initiative as schools opened around the country.

The increasing scarcity of Earth’s resources like water and energy has prompted consumers to be more conscious of the environment, with many people now choosing to follow a "green" lifestyle and building homes which are energy efficient.

14 young women attended SpaceTrek, a week long bootcamp organised by MEDO (Meta Economic Development Organisation).

Cape Town Climate Walk held in solidarity with worldwide COP21 event.

The Movember Foundation is fighting for men to live happier, healthier and longer lives by shaping the landscape for male specific diseases through research and survivorship programmes.

Humane Society International launched Green Monday in South Africa. The new initiative aims to improve animal welfare, human health and environmental sustainability.

Vodacom's collaboration with the Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) has resulted in a welcome boost for three high schools in the Durban area: Menzi High, Zwelihle High and Westville Boys High. MUT played host to the second Africa Engineering week at their campus on 28 September to 30 September. UNESCO, together with its strategic partners in South Africa, the Department of Science and Technology (DST), eThekwini Municipality, and the Engineering Council of South Africa were the co-hosts....

Launched officially on 17 September 17 2015 at the Ivory Park North Hall, Siyasizana - which means we are helping each other - is a project that will see local daycare mamas collecting SASKO Bread bags in order to redeem them for much needed items for their daycares.