MTN signs MOU with Moretele community

Following the launch of the Business Support Centre in Moretele, in May, the MTN SA Foundation has returned to the community and has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide additional assistance.

The MOU will enable MTN and the Moretele Municipality to use their resources to jointly facilitate the implementation of socio-economic development initiatives education, health, entrepreneurship, and arts and culture.

“This agreement shows our commitment that we will be working with the Moretele Local Municipality for the next three years assisting in the development of the community. As MTN we are responding to the call from government for public-private partnerships,” says Eunice Maluleke, Head of MTN SA Foundation.

Phomolong street patrollers approached MTN Foundation to assist in getting the uniforms for its members in the community policing forum. Today, this assistance came in the form of reflector jackets, pants, safety shoes, security batons, rain coats, and other equipment that would assist the street patrollers make their jobs more efficiently.

The MTN SA Foundation, through its Integrated Community Development model in partnership with the Moretele Municipality, will facilitate and support the provision of infrastructure and resources to promote healthy lifestyles, arts and culture and opportunities for entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the parties will ensure that the projects are sustainable and bring about sufficient capacity to benefit local communities.

A cheque to the value of R50 000 was also handed over to the Sunshine Self Help Association to fund activities that include providing food parcels, clothing and income generation. The organisation runs different programmes for people with disabilities in Maubane Village in Moretele.

“The main purpose of the MOU signed earlier today is to enable the MTN Foundation and the municipality to jointly facilitate the implementation of socio-economic development, which aims at bringing meaningful, measurable and sustainable change within the identified municipality. This change will hopefully lay the foundation for disadvantaged and rural communities to become self-reliant, with strong emphasis on capacity building and empowerment,” says Maluleke.

“A whole-community approach does not only target the next generation. Our interventions help to highlight where the greatest needs lie in the rest of the community, and inform the kinds of projects that we will implement. It is our aim to build infrastructure, increase capacity and create economic opportunities that will benefit every community member,” concluded Maluleke.