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Exhibition: Climate change and environmental degradation

To mark Earth Day, The Hub opened an outdoor exhibition on climate change and environmental degradation on April 22, 2022. The exhibition is the result of a workshop at The Hub on storytelling in photography in 2019, and was forced on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We’re so happy to finally be able toContinue reading “Exhibition: Climate change and environmental degradation”

Covid-19 Education

Since August 2021, and in partnership with The British High Commission, The Hub has continued to deliver Covid-19 awareness sessions for adults and elders at existing gatherings in Morija and Matsieng. The facilitators are utilising The Hub’s Covid-19 educational content to bust the many myths around the vaccine. Schools’ Covid-19 Education ● 32 sessions ●Continue reading “Covid-19 Education”

World Cleanup Day 2021

After commemorating World Cleanup Day virtually in 2020, we were excited to hold educational workshops and a cleanup from September 13 – 18, 2021. Skills & Soup hosted Multinodal Developments Consultants and Pheha Plastic as guest facilitators, who delivered fun, educational activities for 100 children. Environmental education helps kids understand why the environment is importantContinue reading “World Cleanup Day 2021”

‘Things will get heavier and heavier for them’: The devastating consequences of Covid-19 school closures in Lesotho

This photo essay was part of OSISA’s Numbers as Faces campaign in May, 2021. Download the e-magazine. The interviews were completed in March, 2021. By Leila Hall and Moleboheng Rampou ‘Lesotho shall endeavour to make education available to all…’ – Constitution of Lesotho This is the third year in a row that 15-year-old Mamello Rasiloane’s educationContinue reading “‘Things will get heavier and heavier for them’: The devastating consequences of Covid-19 school closures in Lesotho”

‘This sickness is killing us in so many different ways’: Elders in rural Lesotho reflect on the impacts of Covid-19

This photo essay was part of OSISA’s Numbers as Faces campaign in May, 2021. Download the e-magazine. The interviews were completed in March, 2021. By Leila Hall and Moleboheng Rampou ‘My cousin’s son and his wife got the virus last year,’ recounts 68-year-old ‘Malepekola Moshe, who lives in the remote village of Ha Ramabele inContinue reading “‘This sickness is killing us in so many different ways’: Elders in rural Lesotho reflect on the impacts of Covid-19”