As preparations for the 2023 Absa Cape Epic, Africa’s untamed mountain-biking race and the premier mountain bike stage race in the world, get underway, with the 19th edition taking place from 19 to 26 March 2023 across eight days, 658 gruelling kilometres with 15 775 metres of limit-testing climbing, the proudly African bank, Absa, hosted their annual Team Absa Training Camp at Karkloof Country Club in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands from 26 to 29 January 2023.
As part of the training camp activities, key Absa stakeholders and colleagues, clients and riders and the Karkloof community members, including local municipality delegates, visited Yarrow Intermediate School to hand over a stationary Absa bus, which is now converted into an engagement space that can accommodate up to 60 children from Grade R to Grade 7 at a time. This project is part of the bank’s focus to play its role in empowering communities through education.
“Our sincere gratitude to Absa for the donation to Yarrow Intermediate School, children will now enjoy story time in the comfort of the stationary bus, which will also serve as a research centre for projects. In the future, we would like to extend the use of the library to include adults in the community. This will be for information sharing where we could invite guest speakers and share valuable information,” says Mary Gray, Yarrow Intermediate School Project Coordinator.
Sydney Mbhele, Group Chief Brand, Marketing and Corporate Affairs Officer, commented, “Absa aims to enable meaningful impact in the communities in which we operate. This legacy project at Yarrow Intermediate School is another milestone for the bank and aligns to our strategy of enhanced access to education. We pride ourselves on bringing possibilities to life and through this project, we aim to contribute to improving our country’s literacy rate.”
This Absa Legacy project includes the upkeep of the library at the school for years to come.
