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eco design initiative now open for entries
Monday, 08 February 2010

The Eco Design Initiative 2010 is now calling for entries from emerging designers in South Africa – all schools of design are welcome. You have until 30 April to submit your sustainable creation that is a durable product or service that minimises adverse impacts on the environment, whilst making every day life simpler and more pleasant.

Behind the initiative is a campaign that encourages growth and transformation of entrepreneurial concepts in South Africa. The idea is to encourage designers and industry to 'rethink' the way they do things, and the campaign includes the Eco Design Competition, the Fresh Talent Workshop and showcase opportunities both in South Africa and Sweden.

Read the full article at Urban Sprout ...

 
Follow us on Twitter
Monday, 08 February 2010

Imagine Durban is now using Twitter.  Follow us at http://twitter.com/ImagineDurban to keep up to date on the latest news and information from the Imagine Durban team and our partners.

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Hope For Street Children
Monday, 08 February 2010

A homeless child deserves love and comfort, just like any other child. That’s the thinking of Street Children Operation Siza (Scops), an organisation working to improve life for homeless and abandoned youngsters. Its approach is societybased, seeking to rekindle ubuntu in the community so “everybody sees the homeless child as their own”, said Khehla Ngcobo, of Scops. “The intention is to transform the mindsets of the public . . . In African culture, a child belongs to society. “If a child finds himself without parents or a home, the community takes it upon itself to protect and raise the child,” said Ngcobo.

Scops was established by a group of individuals “from all walks life, of different cultural and religious inclinations” in 2006 and now takes care of more than 200 children daily. “Instead of starting another street children organisation, we decided we would identify gaps in existing organisation and together work at making it better,” said Ngcobo. Scops is now busy acquiring a R7-million building to house street children. Miyere Miyandazi, a Massai who works with Scops, said the organisation was about Africans caring for abandoned African children, thus “redeeming the African society from peril”. “This is not about whether there are sufficient resources for street children to be fostered – we are the resources.

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Help write the history of Durban soccer
Friday, 05 February 2010

The eThekwini Municipal Libraries' Ulwazi Programme needs your help to write the history of soccer in Durban.  If you have stories of famous football players or clubs in or from Durban please submit them, along with any photographs or audio/video recordings.

They currently have a category Soccer in Durban but could do with a lot more information on what made soccer so vibrant in Durban, from the 50s and 60s up until the present day.

 
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