Africa initiatives

Our connection with Africa is a long one, spanning many generations. The Cadbury Schweppes Foundation Africa Aid programme builds on work done by our local business operations and our supply chain to support a range of educational, social and environmental projects in the communities in which we operate.

For example, in Ghana we support enterprise loans programmes for rural youth and we work with Action Aid on educational initiatives for migrant agricultural workers. In Senegal we support the Diambars Institute, a sports and education academy. However, much of our activity is focused on helping to combat HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS
We support HIV/AIDS initiatives in several African countries and have developed global HIV/AIDS guidelines that our businesses use to create local programmes to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS in the workplace. Projects include:

Zimbabwe: counselling, diet supplements and anti-retroviral medical provision for employees and spouses
South Africa: support for HIV/AIDS care centres and hospices in the community:
Ethembeni Orphan Care project (Eastern Cape), through the charity Starfish Greathearts Foundation
Hope Worldwide Foundation (Port Elizabeth)
Themba Care Centre (Cape Town)
Dream Centre (Kwa-Zulu Natal)
St Francis Care Centre (Gauteng)