Cashbuild’s corporate social investment programme, Art-at-Heart, has brought some smiles to a number of learners and schools in KaBokweni and its surroundings on Thursday April 25.

A total of eight schools each walked away with a Cashbuild building material voucher to the value of R15 000, which will go towards renovating and revamping their schools facilities.

Cashbuild’s Art-at-Heart is a community project that was born out of the company’s realisation that community is a cornerstone not only of Cashbuild, but southern Africa as a whole.

This spirit of community, together with Cashbuild’s store development programme, provided the foundation from which its Art-at-Heart community project was launched.

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Since the campaign was launched some 22 years ago, Cashbuild has helped more than 3 900 schools in southern Africa with over R50m worth of building materials.

Through this campaign, learners from local schools where the stores operate are allowed to enter into a drawing competition, with the winners showered with prizes and the schools with the prize money to go towards revamping their schools.

The learners’ artworks are displayed during the official awards ceremony, and remain on display in the Cashbuild store for the next six years.

“We would have loved to do this for as many schools as possible within the surroundings, but unfortunately we had to select these ones through the drawings and our draw,” said Cashbuild’s operations executive, Kimber Ngobeni, during the KaBokweni Cashbuild ceremony.

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The schools that won were Buhle, Zwelisha, Sifunindlela, Malekutu, Cophetjeni, Maphakama, Gutshwa and Mlilo primary.

One of the lucky winners, a learner from Mlilo Primary School, Khensani Ngomane, said she was over the moon, since she had never won anything in her life before.