Doing the right thing matters to us. We do the right thing by our clients, but we also do the right thing by people – by society – whether we’re supporting local charities, schools and universities or providing opportunities for Indigenous communities and businesses in our projects.
Being a good corporate citizen and leaving communities stronger and healthier than we found them comes naturally to everyone at Lycopodium.
It’s simply who we are, with local engagement and employment hard-wired into every project from the outset, just like the support we provide for life-changing charities and education initiatives.
The support provided by the Lycopodium Foundation is based around four key pillars, aligned with the intrinsic philosophies and values of our business – social development, education, innovative thinking and environmental sustainability.
In addition to annual funding support for B.A.S.I.C.S International’s poverty alleviation programs in Accra Ghana, we fully funded, designed and constructed a new school – a fundamental learning centre that will enhance young lives for years to come.
We are now working with the B.A.S.I.C.S. team to progress its initiative to establish a camp for children in the countryside outside of Accra, with on site construction work commencing in late 2024.
Through our affiliation with the Clontarf Foundation and Murlpirrmarra Connection, we’re actively supporting the education, self-esteem, life skills and employment prospects of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
We’ve sponsored Jeans for Genes since 1998. In fact, we’re one of the charity’s largest fundraisers in Western Australia, with direct donations and staff raffles, quiz nights and silent auctions raising funds for the Children’s Medical Research Institute.
Many Tanzanian girls are unable to attend school during their menstrual cycle because they cannot afford period products, and the situation is exacerbated by a lack of understanding about their periods, hygiene, and healthy habits. For many, it means eventually dropping out of school altogether.
Our support of the Rafiki wa Binti (which means a ‘Friend for a Girl’ in Swahili) initiative is helping to keep girls in school by providing menstrual packs containing reusable period underwear, delivered at school through an education officer.
Based in Cape Town, Ubuntu is providing the opportunity for talented boys and girls to unleash their full football and academic potential. Combining sport with education, Ubuntu offers world-class coaching, together with a learning environment that is positive, stimulating, encouraging, and safe, for students from Year 7 to Year 12.
Ubuntu was established in response to a crisis of fatherlessness in South African society and our support is enabling them to realise their ultimate goal of fostering long-term change and providing young people with the education and life skills to contribute positively to their communities.
If you haven’t noticed, we love engineering. It’s probably no surprise then, that we’re invested in developing the next generation of engineers through initiatives like our Women in Mechanical Engineering Scholarship for Curtin University students, our Summer Vacation and Graduate Development programs, and our support of the Science and Engineering Challenge, aimed at encouraging Year 10 students to continue with STEM subjects in upper high school.
We have designed and fabricated an electrically operated ventilator – known as LycoVent – which was originally intended for use as an emergency backup in the event of a shortage resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The portable unit, which is independent of piped oxygen supply, delivers breaths by compressing a conventional resuscitator bag with a pivoting cam arm, eliminating the need for a human operator. It is based on a concept developed by MIT in 2010 and was developed locally in Perth, Western Australia, in collaboration with ECG Engineering (which is partly owned by Lycopodium) and our long-term industry partner, Alloytech.
In partnership with Australian Doctors for Africa, we intend to make LycoVent available to African hospitals where the need for such a device is considered significant, not only in response to COVID but more broadly to supplement the limited healthcare options available.
Click here to watch the Channel 7 News feature on the LycoVent
