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The Mariannhill & Bissasar Road landfills in Durban are Africa’s first and only operating landfill gas to electricity projects? Between them, they generate 7 MW of electricity from Methane Gas and will earn the e’Thekwini Municipality a projected R46 million a year over their lifespan!

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mothers2mothers' simple model preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV uses HIV-positive mothers to provide education and support for other mothers with HIV? They are changing the model of healthcare by giving attention and care that can’t always be provided by doctors and nurses. Since their first Impumelelo award in 2006, they have expanded to nine countries and 645 sites in Africa?

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Phelophepa - an 18-carriage health care train with world leading technology - has serviced more than three million rural South Africans since its inception in 1994. Since their recognition in 2006, Impumelelo submitted them to the United Nations Public Service Awards - which they won in 2008!

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The Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre unearthed South Africa's first two Clean Development Mechanism projects: the Marianhill Landfill Gas to Electricity Project and the Kuyasa Clean Development Mechanism Pilot Project.
 

These projects are the tip of Impumelelo’s social innovations iceberg. Launched in 1999, as a non-profit organisation to reward innovation and best practice in public service, ten years later it has:

• completed nine award cycles,
• received 1569 applications,
• awarded 293 projects,
• 119 certificates of merit and,
• evaluated 811projects.

Shining a spotlight on excellence in public service, with more financial support, friends like you will help sustain this mission.