- Monomotapa Hotel donated towels and bedsheets to Kukosha Group, an organisation that supports homeless children and orphans.
- Monomotapa Hotel assisted Nyarai Children’s Home with basic food items, which included maize meal, sugar, salt, beef and flour.
- Holiday Inn Harare, as part of its commitment to !ghting hunger, donated cooking oil and 1,000 kilogrammes of mealie meal to Bumhudzo Old People’s Home;
- Caribbea Bay Hotel facilitated a Christmas lunch for children at Tony Waite Organisation, giving them a taste of the spirit of giving during the festive season;
- Great Zimbabwe Hotel celebrated Unity Day at Nemamwa Clinic, living up to the principles of unity and community outreach by hosting a luncheon for the children present; and
- Monomotapa Hotel hosted a Christmas luncheon for the homeless, who are often overlooked.
Good Health and Well Being
As part of the Company’s strategy to adhere to the best practice protocols in ensuring the safety of all stakeholders, the Company facilitated the Covid-19 vaccination programme for employees and their families;
- Caribbea Bay Hotel supported the Kariba Hospital Children’s Ward where the team repainted bathrooms and refurbished toilets among other activities;
- The Holiday Inn Hotel in Bulawayo donated linen to Mpilo Hospital (the region’s provincial health facility), to ensure there is su#cient linen for all patients;
- The Kingdom at Victoria Falls Hotel and the Victoria Falls Hotel championed the repainting of Chinotimba Clinic;
- Great Zimbabwe Hotel supported Nemamwa Clinic with linen and counselling sessions for HIV and AIDS-infected children;
- Holiday Inn Mutare painted Gimboki Clinic, creating an attractive and reassuring space for patients; and
- Holiday Inn Harare earmarked the Sally Mugabe C3 female surgical ward in 2021. The first phase, including the refurbishment of bathrooms, was completed. The hotel also donated 200 bedsheets and provided food items to patients.
Great Zimbabwe Hotel and Elephant Hills Resort and Conference Centre continue to extend !nancial support to students at various tertiary institutions;
- Great Zimbabwe Hotel paid school fees for learners at Nemamwa Primary School;
- Elephant Hills Resort and Conference Centre paid school fees for students at Chinotimba Primary School;
- The Company supports the Chinhoyi University, Harare Institute of Technology, the University of Zimbabwe and Africa University by sponsoring trophies and cash prizes for the best students in the Tourism and Hospitality departments;
- In addition to financial support, the Company provides mentorship to students at the Chinhoyi University of Technology where general managers for Holiday Inn (Harare and Mutare) regularly present topics on youth entrepreneurship in the Tourism industry as part of youth empowerment initiatives; and
- The Company also embarked on a number of refurbishment projects, for example, the Chinhoyi University kitchen renovation project, the state-of-the-art kitchen equipment donation to Magamba Vocational Training Centre, which was handed over, through the Ministry of Youth, Sports, Arts, and Recreation.
The Company continues to recognise the efforts of women in the group by supporting their aspirations and enabling their self-improvement and career development through some of the following initiatives:
- Appointment of qualifed and capable female managers at all levels; and
- Monthly mentorship sessions for both male and female employees.
- Holiday Inn Harare embarked on a VIVREAU water purification project, which has resulted in the hotel supplying all in-house guests with purified water that is safe and clean for consumption; and
- All our hotels were compliant with the relevant by-laws and regulations applicable to the environment and sustainability at local, regional, and national levels, which has resulted in us saving water, reducing waste, and being energy efficient, for the benefit of the surrounding environment.
ASL has been participating in the ‘Friday national clean-up campaign’, a directive that was initiated by the President of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Cde E. D. Mnangagwa;
- As a way of promoting a sustainable eco-system and helping sustain our wildlife species, Hwange Safari Lodge, The Victoria Falls Hotel, The Kingdom at Victoria Falls Hotel and Elephant Hills Resort and Conference Centre support the Anti-Poaching Units with monthly contributions in the form of cash and fuel to this vital wildlife preservation endeavour; and
- The Company through its subsidiary (Dawn Properties Limited (Dawn)) availed land to the Presidential Elephants Research Trust (the Trust), for carrying out scientific research aimed at conserving and monitoring the iconic Presidential Elephants herd in the Hwange/Dete area. Dawn has committed to making a monthly donation of USD1 000 to support the activities of the Trust.