UPSKILL Barrydale

Last edited: 29 August 2024

The vision of UPSKILL Barrydale, located in Barrydale, South Africa, is to bring all the mentors in the community who have spent their lives mastering a career in a skill they love and that took a lifetime for them to learn and have them give back their knowledge for a few hours a week or a day to teach youth their skills. What this does is build community, give youth the mentoring and attention they lack in their community as well as give pride to both the teacher and the student.

UPSKILL Barrydale Director, Graham Abbott, Photo credit: UPSKILL Barrydale — UPSKILL Barrydale Director, Graham Abbott, *Photo credit: UPSKILL Barrydale*

We are 6 members of our NPC, carefully chosen for their prominent positions. Our team has a School teacher, a Policeman, an educator at a Charity, a Skilled builder and teacher, a permaculturist, and a Photographer – filmmaker, and visionary. Text from the UPSKILL Barrydale website

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August 2024: Introducing solar cooking: - Crosby Menzies, of SunFire Solutions in South Africa, recently donated a parabolic solar cooker to UPSKILL Barrydale. He demonstrated the solar cooker to a group of curious students, who were amazed at its power for creating heat.