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Local Sustainability Programmes

Standard Chartered Bank Zambia is passionately committed to the sustainable development of the communities in which it operates. Over the years, the Bank has managed to grow its community initiatives by partnering with NGOs, local and international organizations and Government; enabling us to draw on their expertise in various initiatives.

Focusing on a small number of community investment programmes to maximise our impact, we work on three levels in the community:

• world-wide programmes to address global challenges that are particularly relevant to economic growth in our footprint markets
• regional programmes that resonate with local economic challenges
• country programmes to address specific needs of local communities

Globally, we focus on three main areas:

• Living with HIV: is an HIV and AIDS education programme that seeks to reduce the number of new infections by giving people the facts to make safe lifestyle choices.
• Seeing is Believing: addresses avoidable blindness and is a multi-lateral public-private partnership to raise $20 million to provide eye care facilities for four million people across 20 cities by 2013
• Goal: is an empowerment programme that uses education and sport to help transform the lives of adolescent girls, improving their financial literacy and confidence so that they can contribute to economic activity in their communities

Within the region, we have the Nets for Life programme which seeks to reduce the number of deaths in Africa caused by malaria. We aim to do this through the provision of five million insecticide treated bed-nets to grassroot communities by 2013.

Our Partners

Employee Volunteering

As an international bank working in some of the world's most challenging markets, we believe that we have both a duty and a responsibility to be a force for good in the communities in which we operate. We achieve this through our most important partnership of all - our employee partnership.

We empower our staff to play a role in tackling the challenges faced by their local markets and, therefore, those which threaten to undermine the sustainability of our business. The challenges of environmental degradation and of poverty, ill health and the disenfranchisement of women are among the issues that have a significant impact on our business performance.

Similarly, by encouraging employee volunteering, champion networks and coordinators across our organisation, our people are at the heart of our community investment programmes. Through them, we partner with local governments, non-governmental organisations, multinational corporates and other private sector companies to tackle issues such as HIV and AIDS, preventable blindness, the prevalence of malaria, poor housing and youth empowerment.

Sight Savers

This partnership is part of our Seeing is Believing (SiB) programme. It will enable us to provide infrastructure and human resource support to six districts, from Lusaka to Livingstone. The Bank will spend US$1 million on the four year programme, which has seen a new eye theatre being constructed and commissioned at Livingstone General Hospital.

World Vision

Leveraging our common interests, Standard Chartered Bank Zambia has partnered with World Vision International to rehabilitate Simwaba Basic School, at a total cost of over US$130,000.

The three year programme will include installation of solar powered electricity to the school and will enable 50 girls to access scholarships from the bank every year.

Habitat For Humanity

Initially started in 2006, the partnership with Habitat for Humanity has seen the bank construct 20 houses for underprivileged families in Lusaka and Ndola. In 2010, close to 100 members of staff took time to participate in voluntary work of constructing houses at the project sites.