YouLead 2021 Parents Meeting

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 [...]

By |2021-03-16T17:52:52+02:00March 16th, 2021|

Youth: The Power To Change

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 [...]

By |2021-07-05T11:55:43+02:00June 18th, 2020|

YOULEAD WARRIORS LEARN THE BASICS OF SOLAR TECH

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 [...]

By |2019-06-24T16:31:24+02:00June 24th, 2019|

Project 90 is an Organisation of Superheroes

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 [...]

By |2018-11-13T15:19:28+02:00November 13th, 2018|

Life in Hillview

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 [...]

By |2021-07-06T12:47:22+02:00November 9th, 2018|

A Legacy of Light

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 [...]

By |2021-07-20T09:37:42+02:00October 4th, 2018|
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