The latest recipient of financial aid from pay-TV platform DStv’s Care More community
support initiative is COPESSA (Community-based Prevention and Empowerment
Strategies in South Africa), which provides clinical assessments and counselling to
survivors of sex- and gender-based violence and creates sustainable income
generating community projects.
Through the Care More initiative DStv customers are offered an opportunity to
nominate their favourite community project to receive assistance worth R200 000 from
DStv. Kwame Motjwadi from Johannesburg is the DStv customer who nominated the
COPESSA project.
Says COPESSA centre manager Dr Nobs Mwanda: “This money came at such a crucial
time – when we were raising funds for our operating costs. We will now be able to
wet-pour rubber mat on the concrete surface in the outdoor gym we co-built with City
Parks. Furthermore we will be able to update our computers, and the rest of the
money will go towards the running costs for the centre.”
COPESSA also reaches the community through community value added projects such
as building safe play parks, parenting skills training and reading programmes.
Hloni Nkhabe, Corporate Social Investment coordinator at MultiChoice comments: “Our
customers are as committed to making a difference in our community as we and so
we are privileged to partner with them in this initiative.”
