The Community Partner Committee of the Community-Based Project Module (JCP) of the Faculty Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology met to plan the module and possible projects for 2010.  This will be the sixth year that students of the Faculty will be part of the compulsory undergraduate module. During, 2009 1295 students worked in 471 different projects.  It is expected that more than 1500 students will be registered for the module this year.  The Community Partner Committee mainly consists of community partners that have been accommodating students for the past five years.

On the photograph:

Back left to right:
Dulcie Tau (National Zoological Gardens, Pretoria), Chrisna Groenewald (SA Cares for Life), Henry Tshabalala (N'Wa Vangani Primary School), Ida Breed (UP: Landscape Architecture), Victor Nkosi (Tateni Home Care), Prof Denver Hendricks (UP: Community Engagement), Mrs E Mkize (Tshegofatsong LSEN School),
Sitting left to right: 
Helen Ngoasheng (Tateni Home Care Givers), M Scholtz (Gauteng Department of Education: District Tshwane West), Laurie Butgereit (Meraka Institute: CSIR), Georgia Yiallitsis (UP:EBIT)
Front left to right: 
Martina Jordaan (EBIT:JCP), Sello Ngweynya (Gauteng Department of Education: District Tshwane South), Marietjie Engelbrecht (Sunnyside Pre-primary School), Jaco Strydom (Echo House), Benjamin Ngwenya (Gauteng Department of Education: District Tshwane West)

Sitting on lap of Mr Scholtz, Johannes Christoffel Pretorius (JCP) and one of his children (the Mascot of the module)