Safaricom - 2021 Sustainable Business Report

72 SAFARICOM SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS REPORT 2021 / STANDING TOGETHER: GOING BEYOND / OUR MATERIAL TOPICS //// OUR STAKEHOLDERS / KPI SUMMARY PARTNERSHIP WITH ACUMEN ON EAST AFRICA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME We partnered with Acumen in the East Africa Fellows programme whose objective is raising the next generation of leaders committed to social impact. Of the 15 fellows, two were Safaricom staff members. In April 2020, Acumen hosted its first bespoke Polarities session for 20 Safaricom employees. In November and December 2020 two more sessions were held for 30 employees in total. Both Acumen and the Safaricom HR team have learned a lot during these three sessions ranging from what it takes to recruit the right participants, to how to create high levels of engagement on a virtual platform. In May 2020, Joseph Ogutu, Chairman of the Safaricom Foundation and Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO of Acumen, held a fireside chat highlighting Safaricom’s efforts during COVID-19, together with the latter’s new book Manifesto for a Moral Revolution . The session was very well received with over 100 attendees across East Africa and from as far as Bogota and New York. FUTURE FOCUS • Continue our focus on strategic support to society to cope with hardships brought about by the COVID-19 Crisis. • Launch Ndoto Zetu Phase 3. • Promote sustainability thought leadership through quarterly engagements under the auspices of the Safaricom Sustainable Future Series. • Implementation of the various partnership initiatives under the Safaricom UNICEF MoU.