Supporting community health and wellbeing

We invest in the Unjani Clinics network, which empowers black women professional nurses to operate and ultimately own primary healthcare container clinics in their communities. The clinics provide affordable, quality primary healthcare and medicines to those who are uninsured and under-served but employed and able to pay a small fee towards their healthcare needs.

Strict criteria guide the selection of nurses who must comply with a five-year enterprise development agreement, which also covers patient confidentiality, regulatory compliance, and responsible product use. Compliance is monitored through operational and financial audits. Motus has a director on the Unjani Clinic's board.

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The Unjani Clinics network of 124 health facilities (clinics, mobile units and health pods) provides affordable, health dignified access to healthcare for local communities.

Other community health and wellbeing initiatives

• Kia aided in the distribution of hot meals, baby blankets, sanitary pads, grocery hampers, clothing, furniture and fresh produce to over 90 000 residents in various communities in Johannesburg. For many years Kia has supported RADA to combat rape, alcohol, drugs and abuse. Projects range from assisting with the funding of a Kia Rio to support the organisation's growth and the donation of a Kia vehicle during COVID-19 to being a key partner in the MiPad project, which provides reusable sanitary wear for schoolgirls in impoverished communities. During the year, Kia donated R170 000 towards the MiPad project and the maintenance and fuel for the two Kia vehicles.
• Renault delivered 100 food packs to families and school uniforms to 560 scholars in Mariannhill and Pinetown, who were affected by the KwaZulu-Natal floods.
• Aftermarket Parts supports seven hospice facilities across South Africa.
• Mobility Solutions' employees made blankets for kids in need in the Cosmo City and Diepsloot areas of Johannesburg, and in October 2022 they will make at least 300 eco-bricks from single use plastic.

Covering more than 5 800 kilometres visiting seven South African cities in seven days, Kia in partnership with SEVEN7 Drive collected toys, toiletries and basic necessities as well as funds for Cupcakes of Hope, an organisation that helps children in paediatric wards in multiple hospitals along the route.

We donated a Toyota Hilux 2.4 diesel hearse to the Islamic Burial Society, which serves the whole of Lenasia, Lenasia South and surrounding areas, helping the NGO ensure the ignified and responsible transport of loved ones during times of mourning.

Case study

In its Progress for Humanity initiative, Hyundai has partnered with Reel Life, which is teaching five early childhood development centres in the Western Free State to grow their own vegetable gardens to feed their children and over 1 000 households in the area. Each centre has received an equal split of a 200 square metre garden and 15 Learn and Grow kits. Each grown garden is able to provide one serving of vegetables a day for 50 people over a month. Hyundai contributed R860 000 to the initiative in 2022.

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• Motus Commercials in the UK is donating trees to schools and colleges within the vicinity of its dealerships in nine regions as part of the Queen's 'Green Canopy' initiative. The 'Trinity College' Birches, a new variety of white barked Birch, should grow to five metres over the next 10 years.
• We participated in Australia's Biggest Morning Tea, raising funds for the Cancer Council in New South Wales in honour of a former employee who passed away with cancer. A total of R33 500 (AU$3 000) was raised, exceeding our target of R11 400 (AU$1 000).

As the Ukrainian crisis deepened and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians headed to the Polish border seeking safety, our UK business launched a public appeal for assistance for displaced Ukrainians seeking safe refuge in Poland. Our dealerships around the UK served as collection points. The appeal garnered approximately R1 million (£50,000) in donated toiletries, baby food, nappies, baby milk, medical supplies, sanitary ware, food, blankets and children's clothes bound for the Polish Charity Centre, 100 miles from the Ukrainian border.