Mondi South Africa donated 100 000 medical grade N95 face masks on 15 June 2020 to protect healthcare workers in KwaZulu Natal. These higher grade medical masks, have been donated to The Solidarity Fund for delivery to the Kwazulu Natal Department of Health. Securing these sought-after masks required a truly collaborative effort by teams across the global Mondi network.
This donation is one of many ways that Mondi has been supporting its employees, suppliers and communities in and around its operations in KwaZulu Natal.
Other initiatives include:
- Through Mondi Zimele, (the small business development arm of Mondi South Africa) the business offered further assistance to small business suppliers.
- Rolling out its Masidle (let’s eat) programme, in collaboration with Mondi employees, the Gift of the Givers and other partners, to deliver food parcels to the most vulnerable households in local communities. To date, close to 1,500 families have been fed for a full month.
- 40 additional Jojo tanks were installed in rural communities in the region and over half a million litres of water supplied to these communities during the lockdown.
- 14 mobile health clinics and 48 other health facilities received medical supplies and equipment including medical masks and gloves, sanitisers and digital thermometers. Mondi funds nine of these mobile clinics. They have been operating in rural Kwa Zulu Natal and Mpumalanga provinces for several years as part of a partnership with the Provincial Departments of Health and other stakeholders.
- Through Mondi’s partnership with Ligbron, rural high school, maths and science students were able to download and take their study material home for free through the partnership enabled online eLearning platform.
As MEC of Health in Kwa-Zulu Natal, I am deeply appreciative of Mondi’s contribution. The FFP3/N95 respiratory masks are in high demand because they are designed to protect medical staff when caring for patients known or suspected to be infected with a newly identified infectious respiratory virus. The masks will be distributed to public hospitals across the province over the coming weeks,” said KZN Health MEC Ms Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu.