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Infinity Power 2023 Sustainability Report 27

How our community

investments are

changing lives

through education

In Ras Ghareb, Egypt, we partnered with the

city government and the national education
and skills administration, to establish and equip a

special education school for residents

of the city. This provides much needed

specialist education for up to 65 children

In Taiba N’Diaye, Senegal, since 2021 we have who are hearing impaired, visually

focused on improving education opportunities impaired or with other additional needs.
for young people, particularly in STEM subjects. It also follows our establishment of an

This year, we have built six classrooms, a science early childhood development centre that

laboratory and a library; and we’ve increased access currently serves 26 children with similar

to computers and textbooks. We’ve also run a needs. Together they have created more

scholarship programme to get children interested than 10 childcare and teaching jobs for

in STEM careers. women in the local community.

In South Africa, we have funded places on a

technical skills training programme for young
Local resident, Anna
people in the areas around our wind farms. So far,
Pieters completed
33 people have benefited from the 3-week training
her teaching degree
programme, which builds knowledge and technical
and was appointed at
skills for those seeking skilled work on wind farms.
Loeriesfontein Primary
Successful trainees can proceed to a 3-year
School after receiving a
apprenticeship, giving them all the skills that they
bursary from two of our
need for a career in wind turbine engineering.
projects in South Africa.