Cipla Medpro Miles for Smiles wins Most Innovative project at Absa Healthcare Initiative Awards

Cipla's corporate social responsibility program, Miles for Smiles, won the award as Overall Winner, Most Innovative Project in the 2007 Absa Healthcare Initiative Awards which were held at the recent annual Pan African Health Conference. The awards recognise companies and organisations whose healthcare initiatives exemplify excellence, innovation and sustainability across several categories.

Last year, Cipla\'s Miles for Smiles sponsored two South African runners David Grier and Braam Malherbe as they became the first people in recorded history to run the entire length of the Great Wall of China from start to finish in one go, as well as the first to personally measure the length of the wall. The two were simultaneously raising money for Operation Smile, a non profit organisation providing free reconstructive surgery to children and young adults suffering from facial deformities such as cleft lips and palates resulting in 55 children having reconstructive surgery in Empangeni last year. (Read more about this on our social responsibility page)