Category Archives: 2020

Protect Our Stars (POS)

Target location: Bukina Faso Target audience: Students of Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo The project will support the students and supervisors at the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University to resume their work at the university safely, especially when remote activities are impossible. This will involve making reusable local masks, acquisition of recyclable personal protection equipment and handwash for laboratory […]

Providing astronomy inspiration & Hygienic Supplies to underserved families

Target location: South Africa Target audience: The families of the 110 female students enrolled at the Molo Mhlaba primary school in Khayelitsha, and the female students themselves. Informal and partially informal settlements in South Africa are incredibly vulnerable to the spread of the Covid-19 virus. One of the communities in Cape Town is Khayelitsha where […]

Reach for the Stars

Target location: South Africa Target audience: The community of Karoo Hoogland Municipality, Sutherland Fraserburg and Williston which is an amalgamated municipality in the rural Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The Karoo Hoogland municipal area is also host to the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, which has the biggest optical telescope SALT in the […]