Employee Charitable Foundation,
supported by Paladin

Friends and Employees of Paladin for African Children (FEPAC) is a charitable foundation established in 2008 by Paladin employees to fund smaller social projects in Malawi that are outside the scope of the Company’s CSR programmes. Paladin supports the involvement of its employees in FEPAC and donates 25c for every A$1 raised and also provides administrative support.  To date, FEPAC has raised $633,000 through employee donations, an annual golf day and quiz night.

The charity supports six projects that assist orphaned children with educational needs and vocational training courses, such as brick laying, carpentry and tailoring. Sixty teenagers have completed these courses and have been provided with tools to enable them to earn money to support their younger siblings.

During the year, FEPAC financed construction of a girls’ dormitory, a kitchen/dining building and a teacher’s house at the School for Deaf Children in Karonga.

An inaugural Charity Golf Day was also held in Namibia, organised by local employees, raising N$60,000.  This amount was matched by LHUPL with the funds divided between two local children’s charities.