As part of the South African community for more than 100 years, law firm Adams & Adams takes its corporate social investment very seriously.

”We believe in being involved and assisting local communities” says Chairman Dario Tanziani.

“Our programmes obviously involve communities and people with whom we find a common purpose – like schools where we can contribute to creating an environment which is conducive to learning and will hopefully lead to more law and science students from truly disadvantaged communities entering our universities.”

Adams & Adams’ involvement with the Vukauzenzele Primary School in Mamelodi in Pretoria goes back for more than two years, when the firm donated a security system for the computer room and library. A total of 25 personal computers were also donated for use in the computer room.

Due to this donation the school has incorporated computer literacy as part of its curriculum. Furthermore, we have compiled training manuals for use as reference material by teachers during training. We have also trained the school’s two computer literate teachers in Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

“We will soon finance a security fence around the school and furnish the sick room to the value of R45 000.”

“The link with the school’s twin secondary school is a perfect fit for our corporate social investment goals in the sphere of education” says Tanziani.

The firm is not only involved in education projects. It also recently procured and donated special storage containers worth R400 000 for a counterfeit goods storage depot, Allied Storage, in Johannesburg as one of its BBBEE enterprise development projects.

“We also waived our fees for legal work done for the Starfish Greathearts Foundation,” says Adams & Adams partner and trade mark attorney in its Cape Town office, Suzaan Laing.

The Starfish Greathearts Foundation is an international development charity that aims to bring life, hope and opportunity to orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa.

“We have registered, checked and dispatched certificates and entered details for the maintenance of records of the foundation’s trade marks at no cost to the foundation.”

“The same goes for filing trade marks on behalf of the organisation Action on Elder Abuse - South Africa,” says Laing.
 

“Adams & Adams is proud to assist the South African community with these types of projects. We will continue with these as far as it is within our means,” says Tanziani.