Vision, Mission & Aims
Gold
8 projects awarded Gold in 2010
Greening the Moses Mabhida Staduim
This is another initiative of the Greening Durban 2010 Programme. The aim is for Durban to run a carbon-neutral World Cup in 2010, and a number of projects have been established to try and achieve this. The Greening Moses Mabhida Stadium (the main Durban stadium to be used in the World Cup) focused on making the reconstruction of the old Kings Park stadium completely carbon neutral, by off-setting all the carbon emissions of building, running and maintenance process.
Amadlelo Projects
Prior to the 1994 elections in South Africa, black-owned or occupied land was often forcibly taken and given to white farmers; this is now being addressed by the current government through its land redistribution programme, but it is facing many problems: land has been returned to families with little or no experience in farming, meaning farms fall into dis-use or production drops; while skilled white farmers have no land.In order to try to address this, Amadlelo was established in 2004 by 70 commercial dairy farmers in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
Project Masiluleke
South Africa has the highest number of HIV positive people in the world. Project Masiluleke was developed to provide solutions that interact directly with end-users, i.e. those impacted by HIV/AIDS, on a large scale, by intervening at all stages of the HIV care continuum, such as: promoting HIV testing, treatment, treatment adherence, and retention in care.
Protecting Futures Programme
The incidence of absenteeism and school drop-out of girls increases dramatically when they reach puberty. In many cases, it is because girls begin menstruating, but have not been taught what this means, or how to deal with it. They are also often ridiculed at schools, and the lack of decent toilet facilities at many schools only makes this worse. It was therefore decided to begin doing education workshops for girls at schools in four regions in the Eastern Cape – Alfred Nzo, Oliver Tambo, Chris Hani, and Ukhahlamba).
Harvest of Hope – From Seed to Table
Throughout the country, there are the problems of poverty, unemployment, and food scarcity. Although farming is a viable option to address many of these issues, most people do not have access to much land, and this makes farming a difficult venture. Thus, in 1982, Abalimi Bezekhaya launched a subsistence micro-farming movement. The aim was to use available land, and teach unemployed people to farm it on a micro-scale, to use for subsistence
NOAH Model
NOAH (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) was established in 2000 as an attempt to respond to the sheer number and problems of AIDS-orphans in South Africa today (estimated at 1.7m at the moment; and predicted to rise to 2.5m by 2015). Because of the massive number of orphans, a programme needed to be established that could realistically be provided to every orphan in the country, which could be provided even in the case of external resource or NGO failure, and which is flexible enough to be adapted to the community needs and resources available.
Athlone Institute Trust
The Athlone Institute was initially established in 1926, to run a number of primary schools in the area. Over time, and in response to challenges from the different governments since then, the project has had to adapt to meet the new needs of the community. The Athlone Institute was broken down into the Athlone Institute Trust, the Athlone Fund Trust, and the Athlone Charitable Trust. The different trusts are now intended to provide funding for community-initiatives that focus on poverty alleviation.
Middeldrift Dairy Farm
Land redistribution has been an issue in South Africa since the elections in 1994. In the past, black landowners were forced to give up their land for white people; and this is only beginning to be redressed now. However, the current problem is that, once the land has been given back, many black landowners have minimal large-scale farming experience, meaning the redistributed land is not always used to its full potential. In order to address this, Amadlelo Agri was developed in 2004 by 70 commercial farmers in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. The aim was to access unutilized or under-utilised agricultural land, bring it to its full potential, and train locals in farm management skills. To this end, land was found in the Middeldrift community, which was owned by 65 families who had minimal access to farming skills or equipment.
Orange Bag Domestic Recycling Project
The Polokwane Declaration in 2000 prescribed a 50% reduction in waste to landfill by 2012; and zero waste to landfill by 2022. To try to achieve this, the Cleansing and Solid Waste Unit of the eThekwini Municipality initiated a new recycling project in August 2007.
