According to Stats SA, South African youth make up the vast majority of the working population[1]. In the coming years, the youth of today will become the leaders of tomorrow’s society. How that society lives, depends very much on the policies that the country has in place today. Given the significant role that youth play [...]
Happy (our Policy & Research Coordinator) offers his take on the recent budget speech.
Our You-Lead Collective now boasts 50 young enthusiastic members from all around South Africa. They are creating partnerships with other like-minded organisations and creating a united voice of the youth from the Global South.
At Project 90, we work with many communities all around South Africa, and so we decided that it would be good to work in our own community too! We hosted an informative session for the local residents in Harfield Village, where our office is based. We discussed how the energy crisis is affecting our local communities and presented some of the practical solutions available.
Every year we get volunteers to assist us in assessing our Leadership Clubs Programme. They travel to all our schools to conduct interviews with the learners and teachers. This year we have two German and one local volunteer.
Since the start of the third school term, the Project 90 Leadership Clubs have been gearing up to host a Day of Action in their school communities. The Day of Action is an opportunity for learners, with the support of their mentors, to take initiative to inspire and mobilise their school communities around a particular environmental theme.
The Tyranny of Realism- to what extent is our present and future energy development constrained by the past? This is a question that our most recent report seeks to answer. "This volume seeks to prompt balanced discussion of a number of themes, but also presents a line of argument, that there is one decision that is unequivocally and urgently required: to prioritise the deployment of renewable energy technologies in the short term, immediately and ambitiously, and increase the share of renewable resources in the energy mix as rapidly and extensively as possible into the long term".
Each one of our Project 90 Leadership Clubs has their own mentor, to assist and guide them through the year to create and grow a group of young leaders that lead and inspire positive change through action in their community. We introduce you to four of our young mentors, who are playing a role in shaping the lives of others.
Project 90 is now selling our latest product: the Keep it Bag. A slow cooker bag to cook your food in which will help save energy costs. Please contact us to place your order.
I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing Heritage Day yesterday! One of our volunteers, Nokubonga, has written a blog post on her thoughts around our current path of development not catering to preserving our natural heritage. She says: healthy ecosystems are the birthright of all, and are central to our unique cultures, traditions and religions. We need to ensure that meeting our needs today does not compromise on the ability for future generations to meet theirs.