Anthony Pile was a guest speaker during a celebration held at the headquarters of Ahold Delhaize in the Netherlands to mark the ten year anniversary of the Albert Heijn Foundation. The event was attended by a host of special guests including Marit van Egmond, Cees van Vliet and Henri Zondag, […]
Category: Foundation
First Foundation project completed in Egypt
The Blue Skies Foundation have completed it’s first project in Egypt. The Amir Elgyoush Education Centre in the town of Belbes where a number of our staff live. The centre was previously in a very poor state with some classes being conducted on the top floor which was only half […]
Foundation Projects completed in South Africa
The Blue Skies Foundation have completed a new ‘Jungle Gym’ playground for a pre-school in Balfour, South Africa. The pre-school has recently moved next to the Primary School to allow a smooth transition from Grade R learners in to Grade 1. The Jungle Gym (pictured below) will help young learners […]
School Farm Competition wins Waitrose Way Award
Blue Skies are honoured to have received a Waitrose Way Award for its School Farm of the Year Competition in Ghana. The Waitrose Way Awards are held each year to acknowledge Waitrose suppliers who have demonstrated achievement in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Blue Skies are a long-standing […]
Case Study: 2016 School Farm of the Year
The School Farm of the Year competition has been introduced to encourage more young people to consider farming as an interesting and viable career. In 2016 around 90 schools applied to take part in the competition with a total of 60 selected to participate. All kinds of vegetable crops were […]
Foundation Projects take shape in South Africa
The Blue Skies Foundation has just completed two more projects in South Africa. This includes a ‘Jungle Gym’ Playground for Balfour Primary School (pictured below, top) and a new kitchen for Bonukukhanya Primary School (pictured below bottom). Both these projects will go a long way to improving the learning environment […]
Foundation projects near completion
The Blue Skies Foundation is well on the way to completing all its 2017 projects. The Foundation, now in its eighth year, has over 60 projects runnning which have impacted more than 280,000 people. Projects completed so far this year include a latrine for the Kwakwakrom, a pineapple farming community […]
Albert Heijn’s AHFrika comes to Ghana
This year the Albert Heijn Foundation reaches its tenth year. As part of the celebrations, Albert Heijn have sent four employees to Africa on an expedition called ‘AHFrika’ to discover where some of the Foundation’s fresh produce comes from and to find about the impact their projects are having on […]
Foundation makes impact in South Africa
This month Denzil and Cath, from Blue Skies Pitsford, joined Waydu and Justice at Blue Skies South Africa, to visit and evaluate the impact of a number of Foundation projects and future applicants. The evaluations come ahead of the Foundation Board meeting, which will take place in Ghana next month. […]
2017 Foundation Projects started
On Friday 25th March the Blue Skies Foundation held the first of its 2017 Ground Breaking ceremonies to formally start this year’ projects. It began with a durbar at the village of Esikabew where the Foundation is constructing a six classroom Primary School block. This was attended by the Director […]