Getty ImagesRenewable energy company Yingli Solar have helped with FIFA’s Football for Hope Centres in Africa, providing energy and solar street lighting for the football pitches and the Football for Hope Centres themselves. On the occasion of the opening of the 16th Football for Hope Centre in Africa, FIFA emphasized again the importance of sustainability in its social legacy campaign in Africa. In support of this goal, Yingli Green Energy used its global expertise in renewable energy to provide help to FIFA in improving the social environment for children in Africa through solar power.
For the latest Football for Hope Centre in Alexandra, Yingli Green Energy provided solar panel modules for the solar street lighting system and the company has equipped all Centres with a total of 258 solar panel modules. Each Centre was able to choose between a variety of systems such as a solar-powered lighting system for the playing field, a water pump including water reservoir or a solar power supply system.
Four Centres are left to be completed by the end of the year or in 2014. FIFA has closely and constantly collaborated with the communities where the Centres had been built, in order to ensure that the new infrastructure would meet the local needs. Each Football for Hope Centre consists of a playing field for football and a building where educational projects take place and football is viewed as an instrument for promoting motivation and dialogue within the community.
Yingli Green Energy are the world’s largest solar panel module manufacturer, and became the first renewable energy company to sponsor the FIFA World Cup
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