CSR News

Edgars Stores Limited Donates Shoes to Jairos Jiri Association

22 March 2024 Leading fashion powerhouse Edgars Stores Limited (ESL) donated on Wednesday 6 March 2024, 300 pairs of shoes worth over USD6 000 to Jairos Jiri Association, at the Jairos Jiri vocational training centre in Bulawayo. The initiative aims to aid women, men, and children with anisomelia ...

Jet Plays A Part In Alleviating Kids Cancer

20 July 2021 Jet Stores, a subsidiary of Edgars Stores Limited brought smiles to Kidzcan as it donated ZWL400 000 on the 13th of July 2021. The brand which is famed for knowing kids best, rallied its customers to buy KidzCan branded masks in commemoration of Orange Month, and ...

Edgars Group Donates to Mpilo Doctors

15 June 2021 Edgars Stores Limited has responded to a call to assist the doctors at Mpilo hospital whose belongings and valuables were razed by a fire that gutted their accommodation end of May. Through the CSR arm – Edgars Helping Hands, the Group has put together several clothing ...

Edgars | Fighting breast cancer a Tee at a Time

14 February 2020 What s better than finding a great new t-shirt? Finding a great new t-shirt that supports a fabulous cause with every purchase! Every October Edgars Stores in Partnership with the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (CAZ) makes a fashionable statement with purpose, in the fight against Breast ...

Be a Hero……!!!

30 July 2019 It is amazing how much can be achieved, if all of us had super powers. Right? But the great thing is one does not have to be a super hero to effect meaningful change in the society. It s the seemingly ordinary acts that unleash our ...

Edgars Stores donates classroom furniture to rural school

11 July 2019 In some parts of Zimbabwe, there are children sitting on dusty floors all day, trying to concentrate and learn while the teacher is checking on progress navigating her way in between kids occupying the floor space. The gods would have smiled on them if they ...

JET Stores equips rural school

5 June 2019 In response to some of the challenges being faced by Mushumbi Primary School, Jet Stores a subsidiary of Edgars Stores Limited donated, on Monday 27th May 2019, classroom furniture and stationery to the school. The donation received by the school was a collaborative initiative of Jet ...

Edgars donates to Chikurubi Female Prisoners

2 May 2019 The emotional toll of having to wear the same set of undergarments for days, weeks, months end or non at all can be debilitating especially if you are a woman behind bars. In light of this Edgars donated 340 sets of under garments to Chikurubi ...

Edgars Group pitches in to help cyclone Idai victims

1 April 2019 The month of March will forever be etched in the minds of many as the Black Month. Mountainous Eastern Highlands woke up to severe floods that left the Chimanimani reeling under the worst cyclones to be recorded in the history of Zimbabwe. The devastating effects ...

For the love of the heart...

1 March 2019 Edgars Stores Limited believes there are so many ways to get involved in our local and global communities. We are always inspired by other organisations and corporate entities that put their heart in the various projects that they run. Beginning of this year, the iconic fashion ...

Horses assist healing children with disabilities

1 February 2019 Have you ever imagined that there is more to a horse than riding it for sport or recreational purposes? Horse riding always sounds like a perfect weekend getaway activity - right? Well, it is, and unbeknown to many, horses are remarkable for people with disabilities ...

Climate change Kokolombeni

2 January 2019 For a healthier, happier enviroment!!! At the wake of apparent effects of climate change, we have realised that there are countless ways to improve and protect our environment to change the world for the better. In partnership with Zimbabwe Climate Change Coalition, Edgars Stores, Ministry Primary ...

Dear Santa all I want for Christmas is……… A little cheer ahead of time

20 December 2018 We wish if we could go back to the simplicity of Christmas days in the 1980s. When cassettes were still a thing and rice, chicken, coke as well as moving around the neighbourhood donning your new clothes were the true definition of Christmas. In the ...

The Triple Effect

17 September 2018 Giving back to the community is more than just charity, it is a way of improving the quality and dignity of peoples lives in many ways. Everything you give will be useful to someone somewhere and will help beyond measure. As The Edgars Group we ...

Ploughing Into the Future

31 August 2018 We are eager to participate in sustainable initiatives. As Edgars we are driven by the belief that investing in people is a reality that works in eradicating poverty. At group level, we continue partnering with different rural schools across the country to create a conducive ...

Transforming through Clean Water

30 June 2018 For a rural Zimbabwean child of school going age, fetching water is one of the daily core house chores which can be time consuming and exhausting. Access to water is synonymous with struggle, and this will leave one grateful for every drop of water. Imagine a ...

Going Green

1 May 2018 With the rapid change in global climatic conditions, The Edgars group believes we have a critical role to play towards more sustainable and eco-friendly business practises. We have cut the amount of paper trail in all our business operations and strive for eco-friendly operations. It ...

Motion Mutumwa, Grade 6

1 January 2016 In October this year, Danmore Chuma, a community volunteer and Edgars Club member, approached Edgars Club on behalf of a child in Chiweshe with a medical appeal. Motion Mutumwa, a grade 6 pupil at Bare Primary School, needed to undergo surgery for a hard tumour ...

Be a Hero The Edgars Family gets involved

1 December 2015 In August this year, Edgars ran a unique promotion across our 28 branches were we requested customers to be part of our CSR program. The uniqueness of the promotion was that customers were being requested to donate an old pair of their denim, buy a ...

Moremi Initiative Women Leaders Development Programme

1 October 2015 Edgars Stores continues to strive to enrich the lives of our community members through the various CSR initiatives that we undertake. In 2014, Edgars sponsored the participation of one such member, Sinqobile Ndlovu, in the Moremi Initiative Women Leadership Development programme. Sinqobile had been identified ...

Green Concert 2015

1 June 2015 The Edgars Stores Corporate Social Responsibility calendar has a range of projects that we organise as well as participate in throughout the year, including annual events that we are proud to support. It's almost time once again for the "Green Concert", a show put together ...

Edgars CCS Team Visits Queen Elizabeth Children's Home

1 June 2015 With so much happening in our lives, we tend to forget about the things that matter in this world. Our minds are always preoccupied by things that only captivate or entice us for the next minute, buying into the norm of kicking back letting things ...

Supporting Education

1 April 2015 Chitemene Secondary School Our CSR activities have continued from last year and we are going strong with assisting as much as we can. One of the groups we assisted was the Mhondoro-Marirangwe-Manyame Trust (MMMT Trust). MMMT approached Edgars appealing for assistance for orphaned school children at ...

Edgars donates wheelchair to Gweru customer

26 February 2015 Late last year, the Edgars Club was touched to learn about the plight of one of our customers, Jeremiah Chikweshera of Gweru, whose wife has been in consistent pain after the couple was involved in a bus accident in 2001. When the accident occurred, she ...

EDGR.zw | Precious

16 December 2014 Edgars Stores values the opportunity to touch the lives of vulnerable Zimbabweans within our communities. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an annual global movement from 25 November to 10 December, and is a time to galvanise action to end violence against women ...

Linda Heather Sibindi - Edgars Giving Back

1 December 2014 In July 2014, Edgars was able to assist one of its loyal customers after a tragic incident. On 2nd July 2014, Linda Heather Sibindi's house was ravaged by fire, and all her property within the house was destroyed in the blaze. Linda Heather Sibindi Understandably, Linda was ...

Edgars | Green Concert

11 August 2014 The Edgars Stores Corporate Social Responsibility calendar has a range of projects that we organise as well as participate in throughout the year, including annual events that we are proud to support. Recently, Edgars supported the Green Concert for the second year running. ...

Green Concert 2014 - Supporting Tokwe Mukosi

1 August 2014 It has been a busy season on the CSR front for the Edgars Group as we continue our drive to give back to the communities around us. These past 2 months have seen us taking part in "The Green concert", a show put together by ...

Edgars Assists Environmental Victims

1 April 2014 The Edgars Group drives commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility, through environment and educational initiatives. Ranging from street cleaning to educational bursaries and ensuring the maintenance of the environment around the communities that we serve. Street cleaning in the City of Gweru with Hon Francis Nhema Of note ...

Children's Donations - Bopoma Orphanage and Lizzy Moyana

28 January 2014 It has been an amazing season, where we witnessed the donation handover to the first Rural schools selected by the Cash Challenge winners. The Headmasters couldn’t believe that their schools had won through selection from Club members who had won the Cash Challenge. Bopoma Orphanage Donantion We ...