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Wind turbines provide farm school with electricity
Yellowwoods farm school serves 203 learners in the Eastern Cape, an area where the most basic facilities including electricity, are simply not available. Most learners, because of financial circumstances, cannot pay school fees to support the school.
Far from the main power grid, it became the first school in the Eskom Foundation’s portfolio in the Eastern Cape to use alternative energy to deliver the power it needed.
After consultation with education authorities, the Eskom Foundation put a plan in place to build wind turbines at the school. The result was a school with electricity and an institution able to use computers, print lesson material and use their office equipment effectively to enhance the experience of their learners.
Elimination of mud structures
Rural poverty means that many children in the Eastern Cape attend classes held in structures made of mud by local communities. About 14 schools in the Ntabankulu area were identified as priority projects as many of the mud buildings had become health hazards and, in the rainy and winter seasons, impossible to teach and learn in.
In an endeavour to enhance the lives of these poor communities, the Eskom Foundation developed a programme to eradicate these mud structures. A total investment of R16, 5m was made available and 5 262 learners and 157 educators benefited. Improvements included provision of classrooms, water and sanitation.
