Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza invites the media to join her when she awards projects that have been participating in the Bontle ke Botho (BKB) campaign for 2010/11.
Initiated in 2002, the BKB is Gauteng's Clean and Green Campaign which is a mass mobilisation Environmental Education project and a strategy through which the Gauteng Province seeks to respond to the requirements of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) agreed to by countries at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) as the best possible way to implement Agenda 21, a blueprint for sustainable development. Each year Gauteng awards R3.5 million to different projects promoting good environmental practices.
The campaign has contributed a lot in job creation and poverty alleviation in the province.
Details of the event are:
Date: 16 September 2011
Venue: Centinary Hall, Mogale City
Time: 10h00
For more information contact:
Andile Gumede
Tel: 011 355 1957
Cell: 071 118 3119
MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza awards R3.5 million to BKB projects
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