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With its Springboard Marketing Institute, the Red & Yellow School of advertising and marketing is widening the pool of skills in the industry.

Skills are needed to build a business. GetOn teaches these skills to bright, ambitious youngsters who go out into the world burning with desire to help slash jobless numbers and grow the country for the better for all.

Kerosene is expensive and toxic. Until recently, it was one of the few options available to millions of Africans who are off the grid. But now solar lights are bringing clean, safe, affordable lighting to these homes for the first time.

Dr Megan Russell is using her engineering knowledge to find practical solutions to the problems of healthcare in poorer countries by helping develop medical technology appropriate for more primitive conditions.
• SA’s second health train rolls out

Ogle kiosks give disadvantaged schools a chance by offering educational content that can be saved to any mobile device - and travelling teddies are helping to spread the word and get more kiosks into schools.

The future of education is mobile, it seems, and getting information to disadvantaged schools is becoming a whole lot easier, thanks to Ogle kiosks, which offer educational content that can be saved to any mobile device.
• Education goes mobile with Vodacom

A sustainable architectural installation, designed to show how healthy ecosystems can help communities cope with climate change, was unveiled at the Durban Botanic Gardens as part of the COP17 climate change conference.
● Top green rating for SA building