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As well as the employees of Currencies Direct donating to good causes on a regular basis, Currencies Direct as a company likes to support good works and projects on an ad hoc basis. One of these projects that chairman Mayank Patel has felt passionate about is The Shanta Foundation set up by Waymade Healthcare.

Basildon-based pharmaceutical company Waymade Healthcare has established fresh water and eye hospital initiatives and a university for the teaching of English in India and has also set up a family foundation – the Shanta Foundation – to channel their giving and raise additional funds.
Waymade are a winner of the 2006 Coutts Prize for Family Business, designed to recognise and celebrate the best run small, medium-sized and large family businesses in England and Wales, regionally and nationally. For them corporate philanthropy is an expression of the ethos of the company, what the company is, what it does and how it does it. For these family businesses it’s right to be seen to be doing well by doing good and encouraging others to do the same.

Currencies Direct have donated £5000 to The Shanta Foundation to help their programme of offering free Coronary Care Operations for patients in Nadiad Heart Hospital and Baroda Hospital. The donation also goes towards the Shram Mandir Trust for Leprosy Detection Cure and Rehabilitation.

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