Community · CSI

Empowering learners. Building sustainable communities.

We contributed towards building a Digital Library Hub for Sithokomela Primary School, donating over 400 books in STEM, 4 desktop computers for scholars to access the digital library, and reaching over 1 200 school children with education on sustainability practices.

Hundreds of Sithokomela Primary School learners in maroon and yellow uniforms gathered in the school courtyard

Growth & impact

What the numbers look like.

Each mark below is real: one per book, per computer and per learner.

Books donated

In STEM and educational topics, to stock a Digital Library Hub.

Desktop computers

For scholars to access the digital library and digital learning resources.

Learners reached

School children taught sustainability practices through interactive sessions.

Clean Air Classroom

Learn industrial decarbonisation by doing it.

The same lesson we take into schools. You run the plant beside a township. Switch on each change and watch what happens to the sky, the bills and the air people breathe.

Your plant's decisions

Capture waste heatCatch the heat leaving the chimneys. Store it in a thermal batteryKeep the heat for when the plant needs it. Use cleaner fuelBurn less coal for the heat that's still needed. Plant a green bufferTrees between the plant and homes. Measure & reportYou can't manage what you don't measure.

Air the community breathes–

Carbon emissions–

Plant energy bill–

Clean Air Quiz · 20 questions

Nthabiseng Makhoba holds up Computer Science for Curious Kids in front of the library's new bookshelves

Why a heat company builds libraries

The people beside the plant are who we build for.

Cleaner air is our long game. Curious, confident learners are where it starts. The Digital Library Hub gives Sithokomela's scholars books on science, computing and the world around them, and the computers to keep exploring.

Our sustainability sessions bring the same ideas behind our technology to the classroom: why waste matters, where energy comes from, and how a community can look after the air it breathes.

Handover day

Sithokomela Primary School.

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Learners holding donated books stand on a red carpet with teachers, partners and the Shabbos Shalom team — Learners, teachers and partners with some of the 400+ donated books

Learners pose playfully on the alphabet mat in the new library corner with Nthabiseng — In the new library corner

Educating today for a cleaner, greener tomorrow.

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