Category Archives: COVID-19

Providing astronomy inspiration & Hygienic Supplies to underserved families

Target location: South Africa Target audience: The families of the 110 female students enrolled at the Molo Mhlaba primary school in Khayelitsha, and the female students themselves. Informal and partially informal settlements in South Africa are incredibly vulnerable to the spread of the Covid-19 virus. One of the communities in Cape Town is Khayelitsha where […]

Reach for the Stars

Target location: South Africa Target audience: The community of Karoo Hoogland Municipality, Sutherland Fraserburg and Williston which is an amalgamated municipality in the rural Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The Karoo Hoogland municipal area is also host to the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, which has the biggest optical telescope SALT in the […]

AIM – All dIgital reMote

Target location: Brazil Target audience: Children and teenagers from the City of God favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Teachers at public schools and after-school programs who service the community. The AIM project will promote online learning for students in the City of God favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In addition, it will assist […]

“Under the Same Stars” Communications Campaign

Target location: Astronomers Without Borders membership runs through 143 countries, however, we will be targeting all countries in this campaign. Target audience: Our primary target audience is everyone around the world. The project aims to help those who are fighting with mental distress to look up at the sky and feel connected to others around […]

Amateur astronomers’ network as outreach fosters

Target location: Russia and Germany at the first stage. Australia, USA – later. All countries of the world as the indicator of the right pace of the project and right orgatizators in different cites of the world. Target audience: 1. Amateur astronomers (organizers, presenters, lecturers – on one hand, and also beginners who want to […]