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The Ford Motor Company Fund is awarding the first grants from the Booth Schoch Future Success Fund to budding entrepreneurs at the Ford Resource and Engagement Centre (FREC) in South Africa.
The winners are all FREC program graduates who will share $10,000 in grants to advance their businesses. They have completed the Entrepreneurship Program to start in-home businesses or were in the Early Childhood Development training and certification program to establish After School Care Centres.
Benna Deese, Manager, Global Development, Ford Fund: “We’re inspired by the drive and dedication shown by students in these FREC programs as they carve out a more prosperous future for themselves and the community. Our community empowerment initiatives can really make a difference toward making people’s lives better.”
• The company is intent on assisitng budding entrepeneurs whose focus is on early childhood
development.
• The FREC invests $100 000 annually in business and job training courses and has trained more than 300 people in accredited courses with no cost to participants.
The education system in South Africa has many critics. But the long and short of it is that children are not given equal access to education from a young age all the way to matric and this severely affects their lives after leaving school.
Early Childhood Development (EDC) is the most important function of providing younger children with a good foundation to continue their development in primary and high school.
• Ford South Afrcia sold 18 846 Ranger models in 2020, making it one of the top-selling vehicles of the year.
• The Ranger remained the top light commercial vehicle (LCV) export for 2020, and the second-best exported vehicle overall.
• Ford introduced two new derivatives to the model range in the last 12 months.
Ford South Africa announced it sold 18 846 Ranger models in 2021, placing it among the overall top three models on the local sales charts.
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Sales accelerated after June
The Ranger had three strong consecutive sales months in September (2188 units), October (2203), and November (2100).
The carmaker introduced a limited-edition Thunder model in the middle of the year followed by the XL Sport in October.
WATCH: How the âFord Performanceâ trolley makes life easier for these car washers
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SILVERTON - Being tasked with keeping thousands of employeesâ cars clean at Fordâs Silverton plant near Pretoria has turned out to be a huge opportunity for four entrepreneurial car washers in the area. But with only two water points in the giant car park, it also proved to be something of a mammoth task that ate into the efficiency of their operation, and thus their potential profits.
That is until Ford engineer Shaun Horsford spotted an opportunity to help, and then petitioned Operations VP Ockert Berry, who gave the green light for his team to step in and assist these service providers by creating a better and more efficient solution for moving their heavy buckets of water.