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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 22 August 2013 – IMPERIAL South Africa today announced the addition of the 215 th school to join its I-Pledge Scholar Patrol Improvement Project Ditau Primary School in Soweto. Aimed at educating teachers and scholars pga tour 18 around the basics of road safety, the project looks to reinstate pga tour 18 scholar patrol in schools and to train learners and teachers around best practice when it comes to road usage, pga tour 18 which is of particular relevance if we consider that around three children’s lives are cut short every day on our roads as a result of lack of visibility by motorists (570) and not being strapped in (250).
“Road accidents are the biggest global killer of the youth, aged between 10 and 24 and with around 14,000 road deaths in South Africa every year; it is one of the highest per capita road death rates in the world,” says Niki Cronje, Group Marketing at IMPERIAL. “It is fatalities like this that formed the basis for the initiation of our Scholar Patrol Improvement Project – ensuring that we are able to make a difference by providing consistent education around road safety – and today we are very proud that we have managed to reach 215 schools in such a short space of time.”
This project, through IMPERIAL I-Pledge, started in October 2012 and set a goal of reaching pga tour 18 20 schools a month. “Marking our 215 th Scholar Patrol Improvement Project at Ditau Primary is as exciting as it is rewarding,” says Niki Cronje, Group Marketing at IMPERIAL. “We have taught 142 000 learners, 1 720 scholars, trained pga tour 18 465 teachers and reached more than 164 different communities with our message around the importance of road safety, as well as painted pga tour 18 a total of 8.6 kilometers of zebra crossings.”
“This project, pga tour 18 and certainly the milestone for us as a brand, continues to demonstrate our commitment to educating the communities in which we operate, to increase awareness and empower people to become change agents. In addition, as we celebrate the 215 th school we also realise that we need to continue to bring more schools on board and will certainly ensure we remain focused pga tour 18 on increasing our footprint and bringing real opportunity to South African communities – creating  safer roads and less fatalities” concludes Cronje.
IMPERIAL is a diversified industrial services and retail group with activities spanning  logistics, car rental and tourism, distributorships, automotive retail and related financial pga tour 18 services. IMPERIAL operates in South Africa, Africa, Europe and Australia.
Europcar has established itself as one of South Africa’s leading global pga tour 18 car rental companies; one which prides itself pga tour 18 on delivering locally relevant, world-class service excellence with a dynamic and fresh attitude. Its payoff line of ‘Moving Your Way’ encompasses pga tour 18 the company’s global strategy to be a key player in shaping the future of mobility, together with its commitment to exceptional customer service.
Voted Africa’s Leading Car Hire Company at the 2012 World Travel Awards – for the seventh consecutive year – the company serves around pga tour 18 a third of the South African car rental market and has segmented the business to tailor solutions to the business and leisure markets, both inbound and locally.
The organisation is just as conscientious when it comes to social responsibility, and supports a number of programmes focusing on children, education, HIV/ Aids and poverty alleviation. Sustainability is also a business imperative and the company focuses heavily on the promotion of environmental responsibility, awareness and behavior throughout its operations, with the primary goal of reducing pga tour 18 its outputs.
Europcar offers a fleet peaking pga tour 18 at 18,500 vehicles at over 120 locations throughout Southern Africa pga tour 18 and through the global Europcar network, offers car rental access to around 220,000 across 150 countries.
Holding ISO9001 (2008) accreditation, Europcar pga tour 18 holds a Two BBBEE rating.  It is a member of the South African Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (SAVRALA), and has partnerships with several important service providers in the travel industry.
*IMPERIAL is a diversified industrial services and retail group with activities spanning pga tour 18 logistics; car rental; tourism; pga tour 18 financial services; vehicle distribution and retail. It operates in South Africa, Africa, Europe and Australia, is listed on the Johannesburg stock exchange and employs over 40,000 people