Safaricom - 2021 Sustainable Business Report

19 SAFARICOM SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS REPORT 2021 //// STANDING TOGETHER: GOING BEYOND / OUR MATERIAL TOPICS / OUR STAKEHOLDERS / KPI SUMMARY OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE SDGS GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING: “ENSURE HEALTHY LIVES AND PROMOTE WELLBEING FOR ALL AT ALL AGES.” QUALITY EDUCATION: “ENSURE INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE QUALITY EDUCATION AND PROMOTE LIFELONG LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL.” KEY UN SDG TARGETS 3.1 By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100 000 live births. 3.2 By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1000 live births. 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. KEY UN SDG TARGETS 4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes. 4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education. 4.A Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all. OUR CONTRIBUTION Leverage our mobile technologies and our Foundations to transform lives by improving access to quality and affordable health care services and by promoting wellbeing for all: • Our award-winning M-Tiba product, in partnership with CarePay, is a health payments solution with an e-wallet, which enables the users to save towards healthcare expenses from as little as KSh 10. The product now has over 5 million users and 3 980 approved health facilities countrywide. Over KSh 1 billion have been paid out to date. • Through maternal and child health programmes, the Safaricom and M-PESA Foundations are improving access to quality, affordable and accessible services for women and children. These programmes have impacted on over 367 341 lives across Kenya. OUR CONTRIBUTION Expanding access to education through innovative solutions, our network and through partnerships. • Our unstructured service supplementary data (USSD) and SMS service Shupavu 291 enables students and teachers to take quizzes, search subjects to study and access Wikipedia summaries without an internet connection. The service currently has over 600 000 active subscribers and has so far been used by over 6 million learners since launch in 2016. • Safaricom Foundation’s Accelerated Learning Programme has imparted basic literacy and numeracy skills to 6 966 learners in Turkana, Bungoma and Tana River Counties. • The M-PESA Foundation Academy provides 200 economically disadvantaged students with access to a high-quality education through world class learning facilities, focused on building leadership and entrepreneurship skills. Over 230 000 learners have benefitted from projects funded by Safaricom Foundation under the Accelerated Learning Programme, as well as the construction and equipping of facilities with books and assistive devices.