Shoprite this week donated newborn care packages to seven public hospitals and clinics in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, where a total of approximately 400 babies are born every week.

Emma Makhatini’s residence in Blue Downs, also known as the Ethembeni Educare & Children’s Care Centre, is home to 21 children who call her ‘mommy’. As a widowed pensioner, Makhatini could not afford to upgrade her security, which put her at risk of losing her Department of Social Development (DSD) registration.

Five trucks left the Shoprite Group’s distribution centre in Centurion on Friday morning to collect fodder and transport it to the Northern Cape, where the worst drought conditions in a century are killing off livestock and threatening farmers’ and farm workers’ livelihoods.

This week Shoprite took hands with Mellon Educate to surprise 150 volunteers with snacks and Zip Cola while three schools each received a R5 000 gift card to assist with stationery for 2018.

Shoprite celebrated the country’s senior citizens and their contribution to the Pretty Things for Little Things campaign during the month of October.

The 2017 winner of the Western Cape Prestige Agri Awards, Hermanus Bienas, wants to improve the lives of residents working in the agriculture sector.

In a country where 7 million people don’t know where their next meal would come from, Shoprite is taking hands with the humanitarian aid organisation Gift of the Givers who wants to distribute as many food parcels as possible to needy families.

This festive season the Shoprite Group is once again giving registered charitable organisations the opportunity to raise much-needed funds by managing the in-store gift wrapping stations at all Shoprite, Checkers and Checkers Hyper stores across South Africa.