Imperial Logistics set time aside during the recent festive season to volunteer and give back to the community by hosting a Christmas party for needy children and also educating schools on road safety.

During the festive season, over 50 Imperial Logistics employees travelled to Orange Farm to host a ‘Christmas Fun Day’ for the Grade R pupils of Rekgutlile, Primary, Finetown, Primary School, and TshepanaPprimary schools. Close to 300 school children were treated to a day filled with games, jumping castles face painting, an exciting drumming session and a gift from Santa himself. Each child received a photograph of themselves with Santa as a personal memento of the special event.

Primrose Primary also had the opportunity to experience a fun and interactive road safety event hosted by Imperial Logistics and facilitated by the Imperial I-Pledge and Active Education teams. A similar event was held for the senior phase of Primrose Primary in order to teach the youngsters about road safety. At the event each of them was provided with a T-shirt in their school colours and a drawstring bag filled with snacks and fruit.

At both schools, zebra crossings were repainted and road signs placed to warn motorists that they were entering a school zone. The senior phase scholar patrol members were kitted out with brand new visibility vests, stop signs, and traffic cones. The I-Pledge road safety school drive is ongoing and schools will be revisited, crossings repainted, and scholar patrol members educated on an ongoing basis. To date, the I-Pledge initiative has educated over 52, 000 scholars on road safety, and their schools made safer with new road signs and repainted zebra crossings.