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 [...]
Dear partners and friends of Project 90 by 2030, The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa, and the inevitable disruption to our lives and work, has encouraged us to rethink our work priorities, our ways of working and the role we play in slowing the spread of the virus. As we are meeting [...]
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 [...]
South Africa and the IPCC Report The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - the IPCC - released its Global Warming of 1.5°C Report on the 8 October 2018. Shortly thereafter, the Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC)presented this report to a group of concerned civilians and civil society organisations including Project 90 by 2030 - an event I attended and found [...]
On 4 October 2018, Project 90 by 2030 held Public Participation Workshops with a group of concerned community leaders from Nyanga, Hillview, Gugulethu and Khayelitsha to discuss the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2018) and how the various proposed scenarios could affect their daily lives. It was clear from comments made that the current and rising [...]
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 [...]
