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RENEWABLE ENERGY SCHOLARSHIP OPENS OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH
October 2020. The Globeleq Scholarship Fund (GSF), has expanded its footprint and focus for the upcoming 2021 academic year. The programme, which launched six years ago, to help develop young engineering students for the nascent renewable energy industry and actively support the transformation of the industry, has grown and evolved to include a category for
EDUCATION FUNDING CONTINUES DURING COVID
September 2020 The funding of two teaching posts at L.R. Schmidt Primary School, in the historical village of Genadendal, close to Greyton, has continued. The financial support by Klipheuwel Wind Farm for a Remedial Teacher and Arts, Crafts and Entrepreneurial Skills Teacher, began in 2016 and is continuing despite school closures due to COVID-19, and
FLEDGLING FARMING ENTERPRISE GETS SOLAR FUNDING
September 2020 Tokologo Chicken and Egg Village, based in Hertzogville and owned by local community member, Maria Mamokete Kameel, is receiving support from Boshof Solar Power’s Enterprise Development Programme. “Farmer Kameel is passionate about her small business and we are taking steps to help grow her chicken and egg village into a sustainable micro enterprise
SAFETY FIRST FOR ECD CENTRES
September 2020, Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm. Primary schools are open and Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres are following suit, provided that standard COVID-19 operating safety measures are adhered to. Considering the strain that this additional cost for PPE will place on ECD centres and schools, Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm has funded the manufacture and distribution
WOMEN-LED BUSINESSES RECEIVE ASSISTANCE
August 2020, Droogfontein Solar Power. The month of August is the when South Africa shines a light on the plight of women but even more importantly how women are being assisted and developed, so that they can improve their status in the country’s economy. The culture of entrepreneurship through self-development and sound business practice is
CREATING JOBS
August 2020, De Aar Solar Power. Good recycling practices contribute to economic growth and job creation, reduce social and environmental cost and play an important role in developing rural South Africa. These are some of the reasons why De Aar Solar Power is supporting a local community enterprise, which not only removes recyclable waste, but
KEEPING KENHARDT SCHOOLS SAFE
August 2020, Aries Solar Power. It has been announced that Kenhardt High School and Kenhardt Primary School cleaning staff have received specialised training and the necessary sanitising equipment, as the schools re-opened, following a short interval in teaching. This is at a time that the country is bracing itself for an accelerated increase in COVID-19
SCHOOLS GET EQUIPPED WITH COVID ISOLATION ROOMS AND PPE
August 2020 Working in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Department of Social Development in the Tokologo Local Municipality, Boshof Solar Power’s Socio-Economic Development funding has been directed to provide medical supplies, furniture and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to six local schools for their COVID-19 isolation rooms, as well as PPE for ten
YOUTH-OWNED SMME LOOKING FOR POST-COVID19 GROWTH
July 2020, Droogfontein Solar Power . Whilst most South African businesses have been allowed to re-open during the current lockdown level 3, the increased economic activity isn’t necessarily enough to ensure their survival. One such entrepreneur, Mr Edgar Ndebele, owner of ‘Move-On-Up’, says that his fledgling enterprise has been very badly affected by the COVID
SUSTAINABLE FARMING FOR LOCAL CO-OP
July 2020, Klipheuwel Wind Farm. A co-op of 30 emerging farmers, situated close to Caledon in the Overberg, have received support from Klipheuwel Wind Farm, to help develop into a sustainable farming enterprise that can raise close to 1 000 pigs for the region’s meat market. The wind farm has funded a repository of animal
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