Young Women Encouraged to take up Aviation as a Career
Dec 29, 2020
A passion for aviation and a burning need to give back to the community breathed life into the Plane Project. In 2014, South African Pilot Kelly Slingers headed up a project that would drive interest in aviation among young underprivileged girls.
While speaking to Radio Islam, Slingers said her interest in aviation sparked in 2011 when she was introduced to a pilot who gave her, her first introductory flight – the rest she says is history.
“You are sitting at the controls of a machine and as you take off the earth below you gets smaller and smaller and its magic, its magic!”
Gift of the Givers donates oxygen machines to EC health facilities The province has been identified as one of the country’s coronavirus hotspots following the rapid spread of COVID-19, with fears the health system could soon be incapacitated. FILE: Picture: 123rf.com
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JOHANNESBURG – The Gift of the Givers Foundation has donated 900 oxygen machines to public health facilities in the Eastern Cape.
The province has been identified as one of the country’s coronavirus hotspots following the rapid spread of COVID-19, with fears the health system could soon be incapacitated.
Gift of the Givers, along with the Solidarity Fund and the Department of Trade and Industry, said they would distribute 900 machines that would be used for effective oxygen delivery.