In India, Mercedes-Benz is promoting initiatives and projects to expand education and the infrastructure in order to enable people on site to live healthy lives, for example with clean and safe drinking water systems. It is particularly important to us that people are actively involved in the projects, thereby strengthening local engagement in the community. Facilitating access to education plays an important role in promoting social cohesion and equal opportunities.
In South Africa, Mercedes-Benz supports local initiatives and projects focusing on education and youth promotion, community promotion and voluntary commitment by employees. The educational focus ranges from pre-primary education to tertiary and adult basic education to competence development in the technical fields of engineering and engineering. In South Africa we are also patron of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and main sponsor of the "Youth Education through Sport" program (YES).