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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>SINCE 2019, MTN Bushfire has directed its support to Young Heroes.<\/b><\/p>\n

To date, the festival has contributed over E2 million to Young Heroes and this was revealed by the Festival\u2019s Creative Director Jiggs Thorne yesterday through a press statement.<\/p>\n

The very first MTN Bushfire festival in 2007 was envisioned as a platform to showcase local artists and as a way to raise funds for Young Heroes, who have remained a festival beneficiary ever since.<\/p>\n

Young Heroes supports youth orphaned by HIV\/Aids and the families that have taken them in, through cash grants, food hampers, and skills training and, over the last two years, with COVID-19-safety education as well as health and hygiene supplies.<\/p>\n

\u201cMTN Bushfire is more than just a music festival, it is an expression of social consciousness and an engine for local community development. \u201cWe see the festival as a way to provide opportunities for Emaswati to grow and thrive, as artists, festival staff and traders.<\/p>\n

\u201cMTN Bushfire\u2019s relationships with the wider community of Lobamba Lomdzala is very important to us and to this end, we not only consciously integrate the community into the festival but also have now launched the Malandela\u2019s Legacy Fund to contribute directly to community development projects in the constituency that the festival is in, as part of our \u2018Bring Your Fire\u2019 social mandate,\u201d said Thorne.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bring Your Fire\u2019, according to the festival, is MTN Bushfire\u2019s inspiring call to action that encourages the proactive contribution of the individual towards addressing pertinent social and environmental issues. \u2018Your Fire\u2019 is your energy, your spirit, your passion, and your drive to make a tangible difference.<\/p>\n

The other major festival beneficiary, boMake Rural Projects, seeks to empower rural communities through supporting women artisans and providing clean water. Over 700 women artisans and their families are benefited by boMake\u2019s efforts, and over 20 000 people now have access to water from boreholes instead of rivers.<\/p>\n

Over E1 million has been raised for boMake Rural Projects since 2010 through MTN Bushfire\u2019s merchandise sales. Lasts Friday, the brains behind the festival, Jiggs, Sholto, Roland and Nandi Thorne launched The Malandela\u2019s Legacy Fund to honour their parents Peter \u2018Malandela\u2019 Thorne and Jenny Thorne.<\/p>\n

It honours their lifelong commitment to their guiding philosophy that people and businesses should be actively involved in the communities they live in. \u201cThis ethos forms the core of the Bring Your Fire philosophy of MTN Bushfire.<\/p>\n

Among many other achievements, they founded Malandela\u2019s Restaurant, now the centre of a lifestyle hub that attracts thousands of visitors to the area, as well as Gone Rural, founded by Jenny Thorne, which today provides employment and marketing opportunities all over the world for the 700 women artisans who make and design the basketwork they are famous for,\u201d Thorne said.<\/p>\n

In their memory, the Malandela\u2019s Legacy Fund will donate E40 000 annually to community development projects in Lobamba Lomdzala, and a committee will be set up by key members of the community to decide how the funds will be spent.<\/p>\n

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