Botswana Building Society is a private company owned by a number of investors such as individuals and fund managers. The company began trading on the 2nd December 1976 and is amongst the few indigenous institutions that provide property finance.

In addition to its core activities, BBS is keen to position itself as an organization that contributes towards improving the quality of life of communities both rural and urban in Botswana, to promote participation of Botswana in national and international sporting and cultural events through the establishment of a corporate social responsibility program. BBS will, through its corporate social investment program, contribute towards the protection and conversation of Botswana’s natural environment. The Society also seeks to empower the community by funding projects that benefit the disadvantaged members of our society. In doing so, the Botswana Building Society’s corporate social investment program endeavours to promote the image of the organisation as a  just and caring and socially responsible company.

Accordingly, during the year 2006 the Society saw it fitting to donate a new computer and printer to Tsholofelo Primary Scholl in Broadhurst, Gaborone after a request from the school teachers. The equipment was donated with the view of improving efficiency demanded in the roles of the teachers.

Motsweding Rehabilitation Centre also benefited from BBS sponsorship program during the month of August 2006. The centre received P38000 as donations to support activities offered or geared towards youth with the aim of preparing them for the job market or self employment.

BBS also supported other deserving projects such as the Y-Care Charitable Trust by presenting a donation in favour of P10000 during a sponsored walk through the Makgadikgadi Pans which was held during the month of June 2006. Y-Care Charitable Trust was established to raise funds for non profit making organisation.

BBS continued to show its support by donating P5000 to the Mokalake family based in Mogoditshane, after a plea made in one of our local newspaper during the month of August 2006.

BBS we understands that wealth is not always counted in notes but also in the well-known and appreciated humanitarian gestures we make to one another as a nation, embedded in the principle of ‘Botho’.

It is by building partnerships that we stand to realize our national Vision 2016 goal of creating “A compassionate, just and caring nation”.