MEDIA RELEASE: 07 October 2021 Young Climate Activists from Khayelitsha embark on ‘Playing With Solar’ programme following their Climate Action outside Parliament (Cape Town) last week and the Build Up to COP26. On Saturday, 9 October 2021, young climate activists from Khayelitsha, hot off the heels from the 24th September 2021 Parliament (Cape Town) [...]
YouLead Warriors take on Playing With Solar! On April 24th, 2021 our YouLead Warriors began the journey that is, Playing With Solar. Our Youth began taking power into their own hands, solar power to be exact! The project consisted of many workshops guided by the amazing Engineers Without Borders UCT (EWB) team and our [...]
This past Saturday we had our first YouLead 2021 event! This was an opportunity for the parents of our future warriors to get to know more about us, more detail about the programme, and what their child can expect over the course of the year. In total 37 people were present, and through safety [...]
Every year youth day comes around it’s important to connect with the past and why we celebrate it. More than 20,000 youth in 1976 marched in Soweto, Johannesburg, where sadly hundreds lost their lives for standing up for their rights against the apartheid government. Forty four years on it marks a day to think about [...]
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Cape Town) Ayakha Melithafa, along with her fellow YouLead Warriors, will celebrate the culmination of their year of intensive climate change literacy and skills development course - The YouLead Initiative 2019 - spearheaded by local NGO Project 90 by 2030. (Watch the YouLead movie) Ayakha Melithafa is one of 16 young [...]
On 20 September 2019, the youth of Cape Town will take to the streets for the third time this year to protest the South African Government’s lack of action on our climate emergency: South Africa is warming at a rate nearly double the global average. Learners from around 50 schools across the city, part of [...]
As part of the YouLead Initiative, our YouLead Warriors learn about the basics of solar technology ("Playing with Solar"); hiking in nature; community service and they get to partake in fun sports activities - such as Ultimate Frisbee. Ultimate Frisbee is a non-contact team sport that is played on a field that looks a lot [...]
Playing with Solar 2019 Project 90 by 2030's youth development initiative - YouLead - is a structured skills development program for 40 (per year) Khayelitsha-based youngsters between the ages of 15-24, who learn about environmental stewardship through focused activities designed to make learning fun. One such component is "Playing with Solar", where the YouLead Warriors [...]
The technology that uses light energy from the sun to generate electricity - Solar Electricity - has been around for approximately 179 years and was originally discovered by a French scientist called Edmond Becquerel somewhere around 1839 or so. Although the first silicon photovoltaic (PV) cell was already invented by Bell Labs in 1954, it [...]
