Douglas Reed, MD of DataPro, said offering Internet services to "deserving charities and non-profit organisations" forms an integral part of his company`s social responsibility programme. The total cost per year amounts to more than R300 000.
"We now provide free Internet connections and related services to more than 67 such organisations, including the Nelson Mandela Foundation, SPCA, Bateleurs and many other schools, community organisations," said Reed.
"Annually we allocated a portion of our bandwidth to charities, to ensure they are able to communicate effectively and run their organisations more efficiently. This helps them to deliver the essential services they are tasked with in their communities.
"There are a lot of deserving organisations out there and we hope that by providing a certain level of free Internet services we can play an important role to improve the conditions of disadvantaged people and animals out there.
"We have grown from an organisation working from a house and turning over only R1 million a month six years ago, to a company reaching for a market capitalisation of R500 million within the next five years. It is important, therefore, for us to put back into the community."
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