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| Since its inception over 20 years ago, this company has always cared for its workers, and in the last decade Homegrown’s policy documents for social welfare have been adopted and utilised in other countries worldwide. Richard Fox, Managing Director, Homegrown: “Our business, to a large extent, is regulated now by external standards, whether the EU standards, supermarket standards or our own internal standards. These we regard as the minimum standards and we aspire to exceeding those, and this is all part of our policy of looking after our workers and making sure that they are well remunerated and that they can enjoy the things that they want, which is better education for their children, better healthcare and have some disposable income as well”. |
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| Nowhere is the desire to encourage welfare in the workforce greater than here at Naivasha. Dr Munga: “This hospital was about to be closed a couple of months ago, and Homegrown decided to open it up again and get it going. Now, this was to cater for the community around us and for the employees of Homegrown. So to speak it is a community hospital. Each day we see between 30 patients and sometimes as many as 50 patients in a day. We have hygiene trainings; we have HIV AIDS awareness trainings; we have also antenatal and family planning sessions with the workers in the farms”. |
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| Lucy Mamba, Lab Manager: “We take blood samples from our sprayers to check their Coliesterese levels to ensure that they are using their personal protection clothing properly at the end of each spray season. We have technologists in the laboratory who are basically trained to be trainers, and they go out into the field and they train the nurses and first aiders in sample collection. Those who have been trained collect the samples and bring them back to us here”. Meanwhile, up on the farms there are first aid stations where anyone can see a doctor or nurse if they need to. |
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| One of the most important ways of maintaining health is to provide a good meal during the day, and Homegrown has canteens on all its farms which supply heavily subsidised meals for everyone, indeed this is so central to Homegrown’s philosophy that a huge new canteen and recreation facility is currently under construction on Kingfisher Farm. |
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| As well as feeding its own employees, Homegrown is involved with supporting local charities by giving them fresh produce. Here at a mission school just outside Nairobi, Homegrown’s vegetables provide meals for over 1000 children.Mother Superior, Good News Mission: “We are in Good News Mission Centre. They probably eat about 400 lunch, about 1000 supper, about 400, and then when you add the workers and the children who come from the village with little plates, by then we feed about 2000 so five days is about 10,000 and if you add the weekend we add a little bit more”. |
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| Education is another cornerstone of Homegrown’s social responsibility. They have provided schools for the local community as well as children of employees. Here they have sponsored eight teachers in addition to a new IT teacher to work in the renovated computer room. Training is key to the Homegrown operation, from basic hygiene rules through to the specialist training needed to comply with the most stringent European regulations. |
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| Many workers can expect to spend some time in the classroom. On the farms full training takes place for all aspects of health and safety as well as the safe use of chemicals. Because of their reduction on the farms, less spraying takes place now than ever before, indeed most toxic chemicals are no longer used and, with the advent of Dudutech, most pests are controlled with integrated pest management. |
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| The CSR policy of Homegrown is central to the workings of the company, and is in robust shape, as witnessed by Diana Auret, who has been involved with social audits on the farms. Diana Auret, Social Auditor: “I am amazingly impressed with all of Homegrown’s units because management has understood the value of having their workers as partners in the whole process towards complying with the principles. So, in other words, worker rights have become a key issue for them as well as work-related issues. But also there is a feeling that there is a trust relationship – that management is open, not only to complaints but to suggestions how things can actually be done in a simpler manner or a more efficient manner – I think that is important, and I did find that at Homegrown”. |
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| This philosophy has been extended to Flamingo’s new operations in South Africa and is being developed within their global supply base, and is a continuous journey of improvement. |
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