City Local Agenda 21 Celebrates Open Day at Imizamo Yethu

As part of the Local Agenda 21 (LA21) partnership Summer Festival which celebrates five years of partnership between the City of Cape Town and the City of Aachen in Germany, the City will host an open day at Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay.

Date: Saturday, 15 October 2005
Time: 09:00 until 16:00
Venue: Imizamo Yethu Sports Park, c/o Main Road & Mandela Road, Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay

The Young Sparks for Hout Bay Programme will be launched. This initiative makes available small grants to support community projects and is initiated by the youth of Hout Bay. With financial support from the Coalition for Effective Local Democracy (CELD), these grants are awarded to assist once-off community improvement projects. Projects can cover a range of community services.

Examples include:

• Improvements to public facilities such as playing fields
• Handyman services to seniors or other individuals in particular need of assistance as identified by a church or public agency
• Creative engagement of young people in dance and other performing arts
• Youth mentoring projects
• Environmental projects
• Public safety projects (including fire, health etc)

Along with the Young Sparks Project, The Recycle Swop Shop Caravan and the Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) outlet will also be launched.

To celebrate this, a host of fun activities have been planned. Some 50 under nine and eleven football players will compete on the newly renovated sports field cleared by the Young Sparks project. Four teams of basket ball players, four teams of netball players and fifty children will participate in kiddies games organised by the Sibanye Youth Group.

Twenty visiting BEN cyclists and the BEN caravan (a recycle caravan collecting recyclables from children who swop their recyclables for stationery and other items donated by local businesses) will all participate in the open day event.

The day promises to be loads of fun for the entire community and all are welcome to attend.

All media are welcome to attend.

Issued by:

Lisle Brown
Media Liaison Officer - City of Cape Town
Tel: 021 400-3065
Communication And Marketing
Email: Media@capetown.gov.za
Tel: 021 400 2201
Fax: 021 957 0023

Media Queries:

Grace Stead
Local Agenda 21 Co-Ordinator
City of Cape Town
Tel: 021 918 2564