Employee Salaries
Silverleafe is focused on providing solutions to the physiological needs of its local community. These solutions include providing its community with access to fresh water, improved public transportation safety standards and salaries that reflect a true livable wage – over 3x the average wage of an employee in the Jizzakh region. Silverleafe has hired hundreds of local villagers as employees of its agriculture and ginning operations.
Infrastructural Improvements
Silverleafe has provided infrastructural improvements to the local community of Tumaris by changing their main dirt road into a professionally leveled gravel road so that the villagers would have access to a smooth and modern road.
Silverleafe has also provided streetlights for the local village of Mingchinor as well as provided new pumps and motors for their drinking water pump station. This contribution has allowed the citizens of Mingchinor to access drinking water daily rather than accessing it every other day for two hours; thus, increasing their quality of life.
Women’s Empowerment
As a company bringing modernization to Uzbekistan, Silverleafe believes that change must be applied to more than just agricultural machinery and practices. In March of 2020, Silverleafe created the Silverleafe Women’s Fund for Innovation & Development, an initiative to promote women’s independence through education, entrepreneurship, microfinancing, and technology. Silverleafe is the first cotton cluster in Central Asia to employ women as tractor operators. Silverleafe is committed to empowering women and believes that an individual’s merit should always take precedent over social or cultural norms.
Public Safety
Silverleafe engaged in a safety project for the main highway M39 by providing 35 solar powered streetlights for the median in order to bring safety to the main section of highway by its ginning operation. Each past year, life has been lost due to automobile crashes during the harvest season. Silverleafe is committed to improving and protecting life.
Local Sponsorship
Silverleafe is the official sponsor for Sogdiana Women Jizzakh, Silverleafe’s regional women’s soccer club. Silverleafe modernizing agriculture also means modernizing mentality. In this way, Silverleafe is empowering young women. Silverleafe believes in giving the opportunity, support, training and resources to the women in its community to change their position in life and improve their conditions.
Improved Childhood Oncology
Silverleafe’s relationship in bringing St. Jude Global to Uzbekistan and sponsoring Ezgu Amal, a local children’s oncology charity, by organizing the country’s first charity ball, will enable existing lifesaving protocols and treatments for the eradication of childhood cancers to ultimately be administered in Uzbekistan. Children with leukemia treated by St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in the USA have a cure rate of 94% compared to the same diagnosis and cure rate of <10% in Uzbekistan. Silverleafe is committed to improving and protecting life.