A one-time engineering student has created a battery-operated device that provides a community-wide alert for fire in South African townships.
Anders Kelto talks to a South African high school student about her Facebook chat with World listeners.
I was told that proms are a big deal in South Africa -- particularly in low-income, black townships. But nothing could have prepared me for the fashion show I witnessed.
See the makeover that transforms a poor and smart South African Cinderella into a beauty queen for a night. By day, she's a student in a remarkable science and tech high school that lifts kids from a poor township near Cape Town into a better life.
Schools are supposed to exercise 'universal precautions' to prevent transmission of HIV. Does that include giving out condoms?
Beauty Sqalane lives outside Cape Town, South Africa. When she learned she could not get pregnant, she was devastated. Then she found a way to bring children into her life.
In poor communities around the world, many kids fail at school. But some succeed. How? What obstacles do students who live in poverty face, and how do they overcome them? How do some public schools give kids a great education, despite limited resources?
Students at the Centre of Science and Technology in Cape Town, South Africa, have high hopes: to become doctors and engineers, win top awards, and lift their families out of poverty.