The D&S tradition of Founders Day, which marks the Company's establishment in 1946 by Eddie Davis and Dick Shirtliff, has been celebrated across the Group with a series of family-inclusive staff events and CSR activities with this years' theme being tree planting.

The D&S HO event, with over 300 participants, revisited Karura Forest in Nairobi to plant indigenous trees and enjoy a program of exercises and games. As usual, the Chairman Alec Davis and CEO David Gatende gave addresses and recognized Milestone Service Award winners as well as the Grundfos Fellowship Awards.
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The Eastern, Western and Coast clusters arranged their own tree plantings and lunches at Ol Donyo Sabuk, Menengai Crater and Tudor Water Sports respectively. Meanwhile D&S Uganda planted trees and luncheoned at Mabiro Forest, D&S Tanzania donated school desks and equipment to Nyantira Mennonite Academy and D&S Zambia did a 10km fundraising walk for SOS Children's Village and splatted each other at paintball! Elsewhere D&S Rwanda made a CSR donation and visited the Genocide Centre, D&S South Sudan did litter picking on the banks of the Nile and D&S DRC visited Bumi Orphanage and donated foodstuffs.