Sanlam, Corteva, NWK donate R1.1m to Agri Securitas Trust Fund
A donation of R1.1-million has been made to the Agri Securitas Trust Fund by Corteva Agriscience, Sanlam and NWK, during the Agri SA 2022 congress, on October 13.
“The generous donation is a vital contribution to the trust’s work of supporting farming communities in their endeavours to protect themselves against farm attacks and general criminality, Agri Securitas Trust Fund chairperson Cobus van Zyl says in a statement.
“Farmers worldwide are vulnerable to crime. But in South Africa, the farming community must also contend with brutal farm attacks, a phenomenon peculiar to our environment, compromising the country’s future food security.
“The vulnerability of farming and rural communities is, therefore, not only a farmers’ issue but a community issue and a national imperative, and we are encouraged to see the corporate world taking proactive steps to assist the sector in keeping farming communities safe,” he avers.
The funding will be used to expand the installation of camera systems, expensive technology that Van Zyl posits has proven to be successful in monitoring vast areas for criminality, and detecting veld fires before they can spread.
Van Zyl comments that the donation underscores the strong partnerships forged between the agricultural sector and corporate world.
“It builds on the generous donations from other corporate partners including Nissan SA, supporting the vision of the trust fund to protect the farming community and have donated millions of rands over the past 21 years,” he says.
The Trust Fund was founded by industry organisation Agri SA in October 1998 as an initiative started by the late President Nelson Mandela after a special summit to discuss rural safety.
Since 2017, the trust fund has supported more than 122 rural safety projects, and has improved the safety, lives and livelihoods of almost 8 800 farmers and 183 000 farmworkers and their dependants, Van Zyl outlines.
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