Corporate Social Investment

Via Afrika acknowledges the need to give back to the community it serves, and that has been part of the company’s success. To this end, we maintain a positive involvement in Corporate Social Investment programmes. Via Afrika has demonstrated this commitment in the following ways over the last few years.

National Teaching Awards

Via Afrika is a proud sponsor of the Department of Basic Education’s Annual National Teaching Awards.

VADECs

In 2014, in partnership with Breadline Africa and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Via Afrika donated 3 digital centres, situated in the Free State, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. These Via Afrika Digital Education Centres (VADECs) were converted shipping containers filled with 15 or 25 tablets, a computer, Wi-Fi internet access with Via Afrika sponsored data, more than 400 Via Afrika ebooks, apps and other digital content, as well as Via Afrika’s printed books. Via Afrika launched a fourth VADEC in the Eastern Cape in February 2016.

During the project, the teachers in the four schools were trained on a regular basis on how to use technology, how to plan and present a lesson incorporating digital material and how to facilitate and manage the use of technology in education.

The project came to completion in 2023.

Training across SA

Capacity building via skills transfer is a vital element of the Via Afrika CSI work. Via Afrika offers digital education workshops to educators across South Africa as well as in Botswana at no cost. These training workshops have been well received by both officials and teachers as it equipped them with knowledge on the use of technology in the classroom and how to integrate it in the curriculum.