Comrades Marathon – The Ultimate Human Race
As a full time advocate of healthy lifestyle, what better challenge is there to support other than the Comrades Marathon – also known as The Ultimate Human Race? Our long-term sponsorship of the Comrades Marathon, further entrenches the responsibility we have undertaken to promote easy access to physical health for the masses. At Bonitas we are not just a medical aid but we are serious about the needs of our members and their environments. Through Comrades the fund is involved in an initiative called the Wildlands’ Comrades ReLead Campaign – one of the five Comrades Charities, which raises funds for the Indigenous Trees for Life Programme. The Indigenous Trees for Life is a livelihoods programme aimed at greening communities and restoring degraded forests and, at the same times, uplifting poor and vulnerable children and adults, dubbed “tree-prenuers”. The Tree-prenuers grow indigenous trees from seed, care for the plants until they reach a certain height and then trade them back to the Wildlands Conservation Trust for food, clothes, bicycles, agricultural goods and even school and university fees. There are now more that 3000 Tree-prenuers in 23 communities around KZN, Mpumalanga and Gauteng, helping to offset the carbon emitted by industry and all of us.
Bonitas has agreed to underwrite the development of this programme by providing educational support to the participants. |