Butchery is a scarce skill in South Africa, and therefore the Shoprite Group annually trains some 200 people to ensure an adequate supply of talent into its many butcheries across the country.

Despite the crippling drought in the Eastern Cape, the Shoprite Group supports 82 homestead gardens in the province, benefiting 320 people.

Packa-Ching in partnership with Shoprite launched its fourth mobile buyback centre in Katlehong, Johannesburg earlier today. This mobile recycling unit will travel between low-income communities and surrounding schools in Katlehong, Tokoza and Vosloorus to buy recyclable packaging materials from residents.

The Shoprite Group has opened bursary applications for the 2020 academic year and is inviting top students studying scarce skills including Information Technology (IT), Chartered Accounting, Supply Chain Management and Logistics, Pharmacy and Retail Business Management to apply.

As the academic year kicks off the 150 learners from Constantia Primary School will have their school meals supplement by vegetables from their own organic food garden thanks to a partnership with Checkers Constantia.

When Phyllis Malope (65) started the Philani Community Development Centre in Zuurbekom on the West Rand of Johannesburg in 2001, all she wanted to do was to play a part in helping a desperately poor community. Little did she know that 18 years later, her efforts would help a young girl reach a long-held dream to travel overseas.

For 22 years MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet has been helping South Africans make their contribution towards schools, charities, animal welfare and environmental organisations across the country.

The persistent drought in the Northern and Eastern Cape shows no signs of abating and so the Shoprite Group is reaching out to hard-hit communities through a number of initiatives.

When a women-led cooperative of six farmers decided to join forces and pursue their love of agriculture together, they never dreamed that their passion would translate into job and learning opportunities for those living in a community close by.

When Alecia Magwaza lost her job at a clothing factory in 2010, she looked to her community for inspiration and decided to start a farming cooperative. Today, with Checkers’ support, she is able to grow enough produce to earn a living, employ five people and her farm generates excess crops, which are donated to underprivileged families.

The Shoprite Group’s significant positive impact in the countries and communities in which it operates have seen it subsidise staple products to the value of R141 million, donate surplus food and goods to the value of R60.4 million and serve more than 20 million meals to communities in need in the 2019 financial year.

The Shoprite Group has announced investment in several specific interventions to prevent childhood stunting which leaves one in four South African children under the age of five with lifelong cognitive, educational and employment challenges.