Erasibo

2008 has begun with a big bang.

New president for the ANC, Kenya in turmoil, Bhutto assassinated in Pakistan, Obama wins in Iowa, and the list goes on.

Our first day back in the office and 2008 we’ve been running crazy bedding down two new clients that we have secured. One is a large metropolitan municipality for whom we have been contracted to complete a multi million rand project assessment and verification project and the other is for the Social Housing Foundation, assisting them in developing a delivery chain for the Community Residential Unit (CRU) Programme.

Sustainable human settlement development is the core to the realisation of the goals of the second decade of democracy in South Africa. This stage our democratic development has as its goal, moving the country towards the eradication of poverty and underdevelopment by expanding socio-material citizenship, enhancing the process of social cohesion and building social solidarity by dealing with the structural manifestation of poverty, under-development and marginalisation. Underpinning this, is the commitment to build sustainable human settlements that restore the dignity and citizenship of the poor and is responsive to their coping and livelihood strategies. The CRU Programme plays an important role in supporting this objective.

In addition to these two new projects we have made significant progress in identifying new areas for investment, more about this in the coming months.

2008 is looking to be a good year for Erasibo, here’s hoping it’ll be a good year for you as well.