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CARING CORPORATE
Contributing To The Environment: Helping Animals  As part of a commitment to drive corporate social responsibility The IQ Business Group is making sure it’s a company that contributes to its environment. What started in July 2004, and continues today, IQ contributes to local abandoned animal centres (SPCA), to deliver much-needed tin food.
IQ’s social responsibility programme has targeted a number of needy organisations, with the SPCA being just one of them. The Group is adamant that they are not just talking but are living the “Corporate Social Responsibility” commitment they have made. Charity really does start at home and since the SPCA is in IQ’s operating vicinity, it made perfect sense. The drive involves donating food collected from staff members and delivered to the SPCA. The much-needed soft food will be used to strengthen the sick animals back to health, as well as putting “some meat onto the bones” of small puppies. “We do not see this as a once off, but rather a staff monthly contribution initiative,” says Jason du Toit, CSR member of The IQ Business Group. IQ’s Corporate Social Responsibility team has also donated the volunteer time of the staff members and further workshops will be held with the management staff of the SPCA to obtain their wish list and to start planning and implementing ongoing initiatives. The team has the full support from their Global CEO, Dirk Ackerman. “IQ strives to be an organisation that is in balance with, and representative of, the society around it - a contributor to the environment in which it finds itself. We are working hard at getting the badge that says: We are a good corporate citizen in all the geographies we operate in,” says Ackerman. IQ In The Community Read about some of our other community contributions: · Education Initiative - Tikkun · Environment Initiative - Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) · Animal Welfare - SPCA · HIV Initiative – Festive Tree Through partnering, intelligent application of appropriate resources and capabilities we create solutions that are meaningful to the community. A truly Caring Corporate.
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