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LOCAL SCHOOLS CREATIVELY CELEBRATE GLOBAL WIND DAY 2021
June 2021, Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm. Since 2014, local schools in the Kouga area have been celebrating Global Wind Day, which takes place each year on 15th June, and coincided with Youth Day this year. This area of South Africa is home to some of the largest and most prominent wind farms, playing a big
PROGRAMME TO HELP PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS BOOST LITERACY SKILLS
June 2021, Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm. A parent literacy programme to support children’s learning in their homes has been launched in partnership with fourteen schools, across Humansdorp, Hankey, Patensie and Jeffreys Bay, in response to unprecedented learning loss directly caused by ongoing rotational attendance and school closures, over the last eighteen months. Studies showed that
SMALL BUSINESSSES BENEFIT LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS
June 2021, De Aar Solar Power. Charmaine Baartman (34), owner of Mamfene’s Takeaway, in Britstown in the Northern Cape, is growing her micro enterprise into a sustainable small business with the help of development funding, so that she can begin employing more local community members and take on new challenges and bigger dreams, which includes
LENAH MABUSELA: YOUTH MONTH
June 2021. In the lead up to Youth Day 2021, Lenah Mabusela, one of Globeleq South Africa’s power engineers, speaks about the importance of this commemorative day as well as diversity in the renewable energy sector. As a power engineer, working across eight power plants, Lenah and the team that she works with, harness their
SOUTPAN SOLAR DEVELOPS SUPPLIERS AND GENERAL WORKERS
June 2021. Soutpan Solar Power, located close to Vivo, in the Blouberg Local Municipal area, has launched a supplier development programme that includes upskilling employees with a view to stimulating future local employment. The current programme beneficiaries include E-Security, a private security company that is employed by the solar plant, as well as six general
YOUTH BUSINESSES GET SUPPORT
June 2021, Droogfontein Solar Power. A youth-owned company that produces school uniforms for local schools in the Northern Cape, is one of a number of SMME’s that are receiving funding and business support as part of an Economic Development collaboration programme that focuses on supporting youth start-ups, to help them become more sustainable, so that
STUDENTS FROM PELLA RECEIVE ASSISTANCE
June 2021, Konkoonsies Solar Power. Rosalie Engelsman, from the small rural town of Pella in the Northern Cape’s Namakwaland, is one of the many local beneficiaries currently studying with the assistance of Konkoonsies Solar Power’s bursary programme. “My plan is to return to Pella and hopefully get a job in a finance department within a
UPGRADING COMMUNITY NGO FACILITIES
May 2021, De Wildt Solar. As part of De Wildt Solar’s Hearts and Minds initiative, a waterless ablution facility has been installed at Rutanang AIDS Project, in Mmakau, in the Madibeng Local Municipality. The ablution facilities, from Enviro Loo, have been installed to replace the use of old drop toilets, which are generally unhygienic and
FUNDING FOR ECD QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPLIANCE TRAINING
May 2021, Boshof Solar Power. Boshof Solar Power’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programme, which works to advance childhood development in the target areas of Boshof and Hertzogville, has been expanded to include a support programme. Three ECD Centres will be receiving Management Training in additional to fourteen ECD Practitioners being funded to attain their 2-year
RENEWABLE SECTOR SUPPORT TRANSFORMATION
May 2021, De Aar Solar Power. SULANA DE JAGER, is the Plant Manager at De Aar Solar Power and has been in the sector since 2016. She entered the renewable energy sector as a beneficiary of the Globeleq Scholarship Fund (GSF) and now manages the operations for a utility scale solar PV plant. “I can
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