IBM South Africa has completed the local leg of IBM’s global “Celebration of Service” volunteer programme to commemorate the company’s centennial. The programme in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, saw 10 houses build in one month.
Over 750 IBM’ers volunteered their time to a house building project which built 10 homes in communities where people have known nothing more than shack dwelling. More than 100 000 volunteer hours were invested to complete the basic 4 bedroom homes. These homes are in Orange Farm outside Johannesburg and Mfuleni in the Cape.
Oliver Fortuin, Country Manger for IBM Sub-Saharan Africa says IBM has a deep heritage of making a substantive contribution to communities, starting with the company’s founder, Thomas Watson Senior. “The local volunteer project to build houses with Habitat for Humanity has more than doubled our volunteer efforts on a local level,” says Fortuin. “What is most important is not the large number of employees volunteering, nor the hours of service they have provided, but the impact of the work that is being done.”
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