Mandela Day 2015

Aspen’s team of 50 employees in chose five areas in which they could contribute for Mandela Day. These included the nursing home at the Sisters of St Jadwiga nursing home in Pielgrzymowice as well as a social welfare home for mentally handicapped children in Tarnow. In addition, the team worked with the Blessed Stanislaus Papczyński Read More

Aspen Asia’s 13 employees together with their family members as well as a pet visited Lok Fu Care Home again in June 2015. This was their second visit to the centre and the beneficiaries were delighted to welcome them back. The home, which is managed by the Helping Hand Organisation, provides a home to 75 Read More

The Taiwan Fund for Children and Families, a non-profit government organization that was established in 1950, has 27 branches that care for indigent, abused and abandoned children across Taiwan. These children, who are all aged between 9 and 12 years, received support from Aspen’s team in Taiwan for the second consecutive year as part of Read More

Johannesburg-based Aspen Pharmacare devoted its caring actions to improving the educational infrastructure and needs of the pupils of Blair Atholl Primary School in Lanseria over a four-day period. The school has a proud history since it was founded 30 years ago and accommodates 738 primary school learners. Unemployment in the area is high and most Read More

The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Woman and Children is a one-step centre for woman and children who are survivors of abuse. Their vision is to create a safe and secure society and a human rights culture where woman and children are empowered to exercise their full rights. Cape Town-based Fine Chemicals Corporation (FCC) supports the Read More

The generosity of the employees at Aspen South African Operations in Port Elizabeth touched the lives of more than 1000 people. They chose to support four beneficiaries: Masilakhe Day Care Centre, BASA Homes, Buhle beNkosi Playschool and the local Children’s Haematology Oncology Clinic (CHOC). Masilakhe cares for about 50 children and is run out of Read More

On 16 July, employees from Aspen Ireland’s offices travelled to the ALONE house in Artane, Dublin to paint the bedsit of an elderly resident. ALONE is an independent charity that works with the 1 in 5 older people who are homeless, socially isolated, living in deprivation or in crisis. Aspen provided the supplies needed for Read More

Aspen Healthcare’s Dubai-based team selected to support two beneficiaries: the SNF Development Centre (SNF) and the Dubai AlBarsha Centre, both which care for children with special needs. SNF trains young adults who have special needs and does so without any government support. Since their establishment in 2007, they have been able to successfully integrate a Read More

The French-based team from Aspen Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville have truly embraced Mandela Day as an initiative that is not limited to 18 July each year. They hosted a number of activities that started in November 2015 and ran through to June 2015 in partnership seven beneficiaries, namely Métropole Rouen Normandie, Lions Club Rouen Drakkar, Association des paralysés Read More