Corporate Social Investment

At Cross Country TradeRoots we firmly believe in investing in tomorrow. This year, we are supporting a crèche in the townships of Knysna called Born2care. A Non Profit Organisation (NPO) called Sparking Minds was set up in March 2018, and aims to improve the education and conditions in which little kids grow up.

The organisation’s main objective focuses on the social and educational development of the youth in South African underprivileged communities with a focal point on health and economic empowerment development in those
communities.

The organization sets up projects such as providing safe and clean environments for young children through renovating and building crèches and dispensing crucial teaching skills to educator and facilitators, with a constant monitoring of the establishments and providing necessary equipment and other necessities required for healthy development of the babies and younger children.

For further information please contact sparkingmindsnpc@gmail.com

“On the fateful day of 7th June 2017 a set of circumstances triggered a disastrous wildfire of unprecedented proportions in the Sedgefield-Knysna-Plettenberg bay area. Not only were vast areas of commercial plantations consumed, but lives were lost, and damage of billions of rands caused to properties and infrastructure. It was probably the biggest fire disaster in South Africa in modern times, with over 1 000 fire fighting personnel from all over the country deployed to combat it.

Within several hours the fire had devastated vast areas of vegetation and then turned to blaze urban areas that had been regarded as safe from fire – that is, under “normal” high fire danger conditions. Within half an hour of jumping the Knysna River the spearhead of the fire entered Knysna’s urban areas, consuming everything burnable in its path, and completely surprised the residents of the western portion of Knysna who were totally unprepared before they evacuated in haste. 10 000 residents were evacuated in total. “

* Excerpt : First published in SA Forestry magazine, June 2017

Full Circle TradeRoots, in an effort to support the regeneration of the devastated area, donated 22 trees.

View our Tree Certificate (pdf)