Air Products South Africa has once again shown its commitment to ensuring a better tomorrow by developing the country’s youth today, in an innovative and sustainable manner.
The company’s most recent corporate social investment (CSI) project is helping to address the nationwide plight of poverty and hunger through an innovative and sustainable farming technique known as aquaponics.
In this, Air Products has partnered with international philanthropic organisation Inmed to launch the largest unit developed in South Africa to date, at the Carel de Wet Technical High School in Vanderbijlpark.
Mike Hellyar, Managing Director of Air Products South Africa, explains, “Food supply is a major concern, particularly in the economically disadvantaged parts of our country. It is vitally important to teach children ways of food production which look to the future, using systems which are sustainable in terms of preserving natural resources as far as possible. The aquaponics system addresses a variety of challenges, including poor soil quality and water scarcity. In addition, the system maximises space by up to ten times that of normal crop farming.”
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