SBN HOLDINGS LIMITED Annual Report 2022

32 OUR PERFORMANCE SBN HOLDINGS LIMITED Annual report 2022 33 NAMIBIA HOPE VILLAGE Helping our people everywhere VILLAGE Standard Bank hockey development programme Standard Bank is a strategic partner of the Hockey School of Excellence, setting out to make dreams possible by identifying talent and nurturing love for the sport in areas where it is not known. Standard Bank Namibia recently renewed its sponsorship for the Junior Hockey Development Programme, contributing N$500 000 for the second of its three-year commitment. The programme focuses on realising more than simply a dream of playing hockey. It is about building strength of character in the boys and girls who will later become the men and women who will lead us in society, either in government or the corporate sector. Stand hk Sta The aims and objectives of the Standard Bank Namibia Junior Hockey initiative are ■ To produce national players for the Youth Olympics and Indoor World Cup teams ■To develop indoor hockey and Hockey5's throughout Namibia ■To equip players, coaches and umpires with skills. ■ To create jobs and keep children off the streets. 68 bisbr±2 Hope Village Standard Bank has supported Hope Village for 14 years, ensuring that orphans, abandoned children and HIV/ AIDS child victims can find love, care and a home to call their own. "We can't just hop into these kid's lives and hop out again. We are in it for the long haul. We are building our future and our legacy in these kids."- then CEO, Mr Pumzi Pupuma. The first house Standard Bank built was in 2007, and 12 children moved into it in 2008. Within a month, the house was filled with 24 children. As the Hope Village grew, Standard Bank House became the house for girls. Our support included annual maintenance of the house, pest control in the village twice a year, a birthday party and gifts for Christmas. The first child of Hope Village to finish Grade 12 was given a full scholarship and Julius Kamata, the lucky recipient, studied Hospitality and Tourism and is now a hospitality manager at B2Gold for Welwitchia Catering and Cleaning Services. Standard Bank also identified the need for a vehicle to transport the children to and from school, first donating a Combi and later donating an 18-seater bus with Liberty Life, which still takes 42 children to 13 different schools every day. When House Mother and Founder, Marietjie de Klerk, was diagnosed with breast cancer six years ago, Standard Bank provided the salary of an operations manager to help run the house. Additionally, former retired Standard Bank employee, Sophie Mouton, is currently in a full-time operational role. HOPE COMMUNITY UPLIFTMENT MycoHAB Namibia The infamous mushrooms have made quite the impression globally. So much so that our Biohab project was featured in the Wall Street Journal. Driving the growth of Namibia means finding ways to protect resources and finding alternative ways to make use of resources that are in abundance. As an extension of the Buy-A-Brick initiative, MycoHAB was born: to make Namibia a shack-free country, grow employment and provide food security, all through the cultivation of mushrooms. Additionally, the project aims to eliminate the indigenous encroacher bush that poses a significant ecological and environmental problem. In partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MITS) Label Free Research Group inside the Centre for Bits and Atoms and US-based architecture firm, Redhouse Studio, we are part of the innovative and exciting social upliftment project using fungal material from mushrooms to develop housing and food products. By leveraging technology developed during a NASA project, waste material is processed to create food, jobs and shelter. In short, MycoHAB Namibia is turning encroacher bush into food and building materials while storing carbon dioxide and offsetting global greenhouse gas emissions. Although we are yet to build the first houses using the bricks as they are being tested to ensure they are of the proper quality, we are excited for what the future of MycoHAB holds. COMMUNITY UPLIFTMENT Standard Bank and NamPharm Foundation partnership For the past seven years, Standard Bank has pledged N$200 000 annually to ensure that children have the opportunity to undergo a corrective cleft-pallet operation. In 2022, the NamPharm Foundation performed 42 of these procedures. HEALTH Katutura Hospital emergency unit renovation Standard Bank partnered with he MVA Fund in 2021 to launch the 'Project 9682 - You are more than a number. In a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Standard Bank and the MVA Fund, we launched one of the biggest renovation projects ever to be undertaken at the Katutura State Intermediate Hospital emergency unit since independence was announced. The project, currently in its final stages, undertook to revamp the hospital's emergency unit which had been in existence for over 60 years and served as the main emergency referral unit in the entire country, helping over 200 patients daily. COLOR HO LO VE TWO-GO 790 Project Never Walk Alone Standard Bank contributed N$400 000 to Project Never Walk Alone, a proudly national imitative registered as an NGO that raises funds to buy shoes for children. According to data, there are over 100 000 children across the 14 regions of Namibia without shoes. These children face a range of challenges, including social bullying, diseases transmitted through their feet, low self-esteem and confidence, and dropping out of school. The sponsorship focused on the Kunene region which currently has over 4 813 children without shoes. We assisted over 1 200 children by providing locally produced, brand-new, high quality leather shoes with 80% of the material sourced in Namibia.

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