Social responsibility goes hand in hand with entrepreneurial success. We fulfill this responsibility by advocating for animal welfare, supporting projects in the areas of education, research, arts and intercultural affairs, and promoting sports by acting as a sponsor. In addition, health projects for children are particularly important to us.
Our strong growth over the years has brought with it a rich diversity of cultures among our employees. It is important here to be able to rely on a common framework of values. Only through this common approach will we remain a global community that deals with its employees, customers and suppliers in a respectful, honest and reliable manner. We are also committed to protecting the environment in many ways. Our main focus is on energy emissions from vehicles and buildings, waste prevention, and recycling.
The Auma Obama Foundation Sauti Kuu (Sauti Kuu) is a non-profit organization that was established in Kenya in 2010 and registered in Germany in 2011. The foundation is led and inspired by Dr. Auma Obama, who has extensive experience working with NGOs and young people in Africa and throughout the world. Sauti Kuu (“powerful voices” in Kiswahili) works with disadvantaged young people, particularly those in rural areas, to help them and their families utilize locally available resources to improve their living conditions. Sauti Kuu is working to reverse one of the most economically destructive migrations in our time: rural-urban migration.
As part of its infrastructure development program, Sauti Kuu is building a Sport, Resource and Vocational Training Center in Alego Nyangoma, Siaya County, in Western Kenya. The aim is to create a safe and secure physical space for young people from rural areas to meet and interact regularly, while participating in sports and learning activities. The center will offer basketball, boxing, football, volleyball and netball.
SNP is delighted to support the Sauti Kuu Foundation in setting up the sports center, as providing the children with new sports facilities is important to us.
The picture shows our founder and CEO Dr. Andreas Schneider-Neureither with former US President Barack Obama at the inauguration of the Sport, Resource and Vocational Training Center.
SNP is proud to support Shine, a UK-registered charity that is tackling illiteracy among the poorest, most vulnerable children in Africa. Shine’s vision is of an Africa in which every child can read and write. Their mission is to help alleviate poverty in Zambia by tackling one of its underlying causes – illiteracy – among children in its poorest parts. They are achieving this through a free literacy school for orphans and vulnerable children in a poverty-stricken shanty town in Lusaka.
Shine’s ambition is to ignite a culture of reading and to instill a love of books, both in the school and in the wider community. The school library was set up with this in mind and is the only decent library for miles around. It provides a valuable resource for the children at the school and the local community. The Shine library is stocked with around 9,000 books, all donated by well-wishers in the UK and US.
To achieve its aim, Shine has built its own school called the Shine Zambia Reading Academy in the compound of Kalikiliki, Lusaka. The school has 150 pupils and 8 local teachers. It charges no fees, and its focus is to teach illiterate children how to read and write – children whose family cannot afford to send them to school or cannot find them a school place due to oversubscription. Children are enrolled between the ages of 8 and 12. The literacy program lasts for 2–3 years and consists mainly of phonics lessons, English grammar, key word learning, storytelling and guided reading practice. When pupils complete the program and pass their final exams, they graduate and Shine places them in nearby government schools directly in the 5th, 6th or 7th grade so they can continue in formal, mainstream education.
