David Mokwena is 38 years old. He has a girlfriend, and two children: a son of 18 years and daughter of 5 years who are both still at school.

Since he started working at Pamodzi as a caregiver David says, “I feel like I am making a difference in people’s lives”. Four men applied to become caregivers but all of them except David left the programme because they found the work too difficult emotionally and mentally.

It is not every day that a group of eight analysts from Stern Stewart & Co Management Services gets down to the business of building a shack for a destitute family in Orange Farm.

Wayne Dannheiser, the CEO of the company, decided to do more than just donate money to a charitable cause for their Corporate Social Investment this year. He wanted to turn it into a team building activity that would change people’s lives.

When Suzan (Mathapelo) Mathebule was a child, she, her mother and siblings had to sleep in public toilets for a year and a half after her parents’ divorce.

Then Suzan (now 25) met a man who promised to take care of her. For over five years Suzan lived with her boyfriend in his tin shack in Diepsloot. The boyfriend constantly abused her emotionally, physically and sexually which resulted in Suzan’s four children: Margaret (4), Mapheto (3), Lerato (2) and Big Boy (1). Suzan stayed at home to house keep for her boyfriend and, as a result, had no working experience.