Child Protection Organizations
Wage Payment Software
Readers are asked to write down letters published on this section to complete a quiz when they register for financial support. There is five capital letters hidden on this section. The sixth letter is published on the invitation e-mail. It is not spelling errors on the website. Reader must write down a word that consist out of 6 letters. The letters is not in sequence. We just want to ensure that staff at welfare organizations read this important website.... The letters will stand alone in a sentence. The first letter for the website is U.
The software we develop will be used by companies to purchase digital vouchers from all the food companies for their employees when they are paying out wages. This software platform will become a strategic tool to help child protection organizations.
The wage payment software is a simple solution to help thousands of lower income people.
Benefit for Food Companies
Food companies are always looking for ways to reduce the number of cash-intakes. They started to include services where consumers can withdraw cash from their cashiers and not from the banks. It is better for them to get as much cash out of the store as possible.
It is COSTLY to transfer cash via security companies and then to bank the cash into their bank accounts!
Everybody gain if software can reduce these costs.
The Wage Payment Software is discusses again in more detail on the Enjoy Life app section. On the Enjoy Life app section, we explain how it will be possible to work with more than 4 million low-income people. Our financial plannings is however based on smaller numbers.
The Enjoy Life phone app business plan is based on 950 000 South Africans, which include 750 000 people who qualify for Child Care Dependency Grants from SASSA
Note that we calculate Avg Grocery Spending per family on a low amount of R2 500 per month. We do not use large amounts in our business plan. Most wage earners also need to buy pre-paid electricity and these costs is also included in our "Grocery budget". Our research amongst wage earners in the Western Cape revealed that families (5 people in household) pay up to R900 per month for electricity. We work on R1 600 to be used for groceries and clothes. 5 Persons in one household cannot live on such a low budget!
We will raise R23,75 million per month if we only support the 750 000 Low-income people via the Wage Payment platform.
The Homecare Board decided to sponsor the groceries of our Pledge Holder ambassadors. We predict that we will on average donate R3 500 per Pledge. We will stop to issue Pledge Certificates when we reach approximately R2.5 million of grocery purchasing. We are first obligated to provide Pledge Certificate holders with digital vouchers before we can issue vouchers to other people. We will need R2.5 million out of the R23 million to honor our side of the pledge agreements. We will need to support approximately 80 000 wage earners to support our Pledge Holders. The 80 000 people will immediately benefit financially as explained in detail below.
The Wage Payment software platform will be offered to companies in numerous industries:
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Agriculture
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Agriprocessing
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Automotive
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Chemicals
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Fuel stations (Petrol attendants)
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ICT and electronics
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Metals
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Private Security Companies
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Textiles, clothing and footwear
Domestic Workers
To reduce reading time, we decided to only discuss support to Domestic workers. They are the lowest paid people in our country.
We need to look at the circumstances of domestic workers and take everything into consideration.
Remember that most likely more than 80% of the domestic workers have families, meaning that they are not the only persons that earn wages.
They usually have children under their care. The fact is that most domestic workers work to earn a wage, but they also rely on the Social Grants from Government to help them raise their children [Child Support Grant (12,196,981 beneficiaries). R380 per month to the main caregiver of a child 18 or younger. The applicant must earn less than R45,600 (if single) or R91,200 (combined income if married) per year.]
The minimum wage for domestic workers is R2 545.22 per month. The domestic worker will usually have access to her husband's income (might be a wage as well) plus on average 3 times R380 per child under her care. The immediate family might combined have access to more than
R6 500 per month. What we want to explain is that the domestic worker might one day ask her employer to convert up to R2 500 per month on her behalf into digital vouchers to support her family. It is with today's food costs almost impossible to provide to a family of 5 with less than R2 500 per month. R2 500 will barely be enough to purchase the basic essentials plus electricity.
We also need to take other aspects into consideration. In most cases, the person that buy groceries for the family do this on almost a daily basis. Remember that these people do not own their own vehicles. They use taxis as transport and they tend to purchase a small number of items more regularly. To back this statement, we can use information published by the Shoprite group: https://www.shopriteholdings.co.za/
Shoprite website
Our Group
We are the largest supermarket retailer on the African continent. Our Group is a R141 bn turnover business, with a staff complement of more than 148,000 people. We serve local communities with the lowest price promise. 35 million people shop in our footprint of more than 2,811 outlets every day.
There are numerous food supplying groups (Pick n Pay, Spar, OK, numerous smaller independent companies and Spaza shops) who also have clients on a daily basis. The number of people inside food stores is much more than 35 million people per day! F
Most salary earners with vehicles might visit food stores on average 6 times per month. We can purchase more products per visit and transport it home with our vehicles. (Wage earners who we will support do not have this privilege to purchase in the same way most readers do.)
Wage earners also have additional costs to purchase groceries. If they withdraw cash from ATM machines, the cost is R8 per transaction (native machines via Capitec = lowest compared to all banks). Let’s say the person responsible to purchase groceries visit stores 20 times per month and withdraw cash only 10 times per month. R80 of the funds they received are then allocated to bank fees, due to their circumstances. Most of the wage earners prefer not to carry large amounts of cash on them, fearing robbery. There is unfortunately a lot of people who are not well educated regarding financial management. Wage earners with debit cards might also pay with their cards. The debit costs per transaction = R1.50. This will result in R30 per month on banking fees.
There are two benefits:
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The domestic worker can earn an additional 4% on their grocery spending. It may not seem to be a large amount, but if you consider that the domestic worker needs to make a living with almost nothing, then every sent they can save or earn additionally will help. The Homecare team can pay out an additional R100.00 (4% of R2 500) per month towards the domestic worker when we support them with the gift vouchers. The gift cards also have no banking costs, hence using it will not befall additional costs for the person. A number of wage earners will gain an additional R80 and others R30 per month.
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Having a voucher instead of cash is also beneficial. It is sometimes risky for people to go to shops with cash. Chances of getting robbed especially for older domestic workers is real. In this project, the domestic workers will transfer the amount on their digital vouchers onto gift cards. They will then be able to provide the Employer the gift card numbers. The gift cards create an audit trail. If the card is stolen and the robber use it at the till inside a food store, the police can use TV surveillance to catch these robbers. The Food companies can determine at which till and on what date & time the last transaction occurred on the card. It will actually reduce crime on poor people.
The Grocery spending focus points, enable us to target a larger number of “Lower income” people.
It is the Core on which we built our support plan towards child protection staff, management teams and board members