CEO of the Bosasa Group, Gavin Watson is community centred. Look around you and you will see in any community where Bosasa has left a footprint, some social responsibility landmark that is part of his ethos. It is to the community that he owes his exceptional staff. It is to the community he believes Bosasa will always owe a debt.
It has only been four months since Gavin Watson and his senior executives dropped everything in their busy schedules in order to personally present music instruments to FJL Wells Music School in Bhongweni Village, Randfontein. It was during this moving encounter with ambitious but disadvantaged students where he made a generous donation of a broad range of musical instruments. From music skills comes mathematical skills say the gurus. It is about reading, understanding and manipulating symbols Gavin Watson has been driving the growth of personal talent as well as scientific knowledge.
Science and art have always found a home at Mogale Business Park. Gavin also announced the payment of tuition fees for all the music students in the school. Gavin Watson all gave all the students enough pocket money for the month. His 67 minutes of Mandela Day would be a gift that will keep on living and giving to the heart and mind of a child. This November the school released its interim results and the outcome of competitions into which Bosasa had entered them.
Among their top students, they received Diamond, Gold and Platinum Awards in the RACA and Segarona Arts Festivals. They also held a Gala Concert which the chairman of the SGB, Benedict Moeng sang the praises of Gavin Watson and the Bosasa Group. Mr. Moeng who is also a district official in the Department of Education, commended the students for taking music as a course in life. "Music transforms lives. We can thank Gavin for seeing this as a golden opportunity. Don't look back five years down the line and have any regrets. Look back and say, I have succeeded. You can only do that through your convictions,"
Gavin is also familiar with the research that has definitively shown - children who play sport and musical instruments are less likely to become deviant and hang around street corners and malls with nothing but time on their hands. Music he believes enhances spiritual growth as well. "We would not have done it without our sponsors, Bosasa." To Gavin Watson Mr. Moeng said "We thank you. You didn't sit back and watch while we struggled helplessly. You heard about our needs and you responded immediately. You gave these children an opportunity to grow their full potential, believe in themselves and give something back to a needy community." Gavin listened to the results of the Bosasa Group's donation. Strains of popular classical tunes La Donna e mobile and Blue Danube Waltz were among the hot favourites. But so were well known pop songs performed with a classical twist such Endless Love and the Lion King theme song as well as Amazing Grace. It made for a night to remember. The African drums orchestra was original and moving.
The music school is one of fifty social responsibility projects that Gavin Watson has identified for the enhancement of personal growth and the community this year.
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