Donate with Vodacom to Help Connect Communities for a Better Future
Connect for Change is Vodacom’s independent donation platform, giving customers a simple way to help build a more inclusive digital society. By donating through the VodaPay app, USSD or online, customers can support initiatives focused on three key areas: quality digital education, humanitarian and welfare support, and health. Together, these contributions help improve the lives of underprivileged children and support Vodacom’s purpose of connecting people for a better future.
Beneficiaries
Humanitarian / Welfare
Tanga Secondary School in Butterworth
The project in Tanga Senior Secondary School is being facilitated through the Connect for Change Trust’s Digital Education pillar, aimed at adopting quintile 1 schools and turning them into safe schools that use digital tools to achieve academic excellence. In the first phase of the project, the Trust, through its partnership with Vodacom Foundation invested seed funding of over R300 000 to refurbish a classroom to be converted into a computer lab. Vodacom has also helped the school with infrastructure upgrades, including
decommissioning pit latrines and replacing them with more adequate ablution facilities, as well as security installation.
The project in Tanga Senior Secondary School is being facilitated through the Connect for Change Trust’s Digital Education pillar, aimed at adopting quintile 1 schools and turning them into safe schools that use digital tools to achieve academic excellence. In the first phase of the project, the Trust, through its partnership with Vodacom Foundation invested seed funding of over R300 000 to refurbish a classroom to be converted into a computer lab. Vodacom has also helped the school with infrastructure upgrades, including
decommissioning pit latrines and replacing them with more adequate ablution facilities, as well as security installation.
Humanitarian / Welfare
The Lunchbox Fund
Since 2021, the Connect for Change Trust has partnered with The LunchBox Fund to fight the growing food security crisis affecting millions of young children in South Africa. Through this
partnership, over 30,000 preschool children receive a nutritious meal every school day — a meal that fuels learning, growth, and hope.
THE MAIN PILLAR FOR CONNECT FOR CHANGE
Digitising Education
The core pillar of the Connect for Change Trust is digitising education in the form of adopting rural schools and collaborating with partners to transform the facility into a digitally-enabled learning environment.
Customer donations in this pillar go towards computer room renovations, decommissioning of pit latrines with safer, hygienic and dignified ablution facilities ,installation of security infrastructure and other essential efforts that offer improved learning conditions.
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MEET OUR NEW TRUSTEE
Nonkululeko Boikhutso
Dr Nonkululeko Boikhutso is an accomplished healthcare executive and public health specialist with extensive experience in hospital leadership, clinical governance and health services management. As CEO of Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital, she has led strategic transformation, strengthened partnerships and championed equitable, high-quality healthcare for children and communities across South Africa.
