Corestruc helps support golf day to raise funds for people with acquired brain injury

Corestruc, a leading precast-concrete specialist, recently helped sponsor a golf day to support BrainLife. This non-profit organisation (NPO) assists people with acquired brain injury (ABI) and their loved ones from its branches in Mamelodi and the Wilgers in Tshwane.

The event was hosted by Ceenex, one of BrainLife’s long-standing corporate social investment partners. Corestruc has worked with this leading consulting engineering firm on an award-winning water-augmentation project.

Corestruc sponsored a hole and invited Gavin Mc Alpine, Financial Director of Murray & Dickson Construction, and Bruce Ivins, Senior Estimator of Murray & Dickson Construction, to participate in a round of golf.

Hosted at Wingate Park Country Club in Tshwane on 22 October 2021, the golf day provided an ideal opportunity for companies to learn more about the significant positive impact that BrainLife’s various programmes are having on the lives of so many South Africans and raise funds for its various programmes.

This includes the therapy that BrainLife provides to people living with ABI. In 2020, alone, the NPO provided about 8 126 therapy hours either telephonically or at its branches in Mamelodi and Wilgers. BrainLife also donated more than 2 100 food parcels and 700 lunches, as well as in excess of 80l of sanitizer to people with ABI and their loved ones.

More recently, BrainLife also established a shop that sells pre-owned items in a very poor area of Mamelodi. Revenue generated from this initiative is being used to help uplift members of the community with ABI and their support networks.

ABI refers to any type of brain damage that occurs after birth. This can include, among others, damage sustained by infection, disease, lack of oxygen or a blow to the head. This damage is irreversible. People with ABI experience increased mental and physical fatigue. Their ability to process information, plan and solve problems may also be altered. Moreover, there may be changes in their behaviour and personality, physical and sensory abilities, or capacity to think and learn. It can also be extremely devastating and a life-changing experience for friends and family.

“We are proud to have played our small part in supporting this worthy cause. BrainLife needs assistance from responsible corporate citizens especially in these challenging economic conditions that has made it increasingly difficult for NPOs to raise funds for initiatives that help build a better South Africa for all citizens,” Willie de Jager, Managing Director of Corestruc, concludes.