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21 August 2019 | Story Zama Feni | Photo Zama Feni
Shoes project
University of the Free State Biokinetics student, Maralé Hoft, with pairs of tackies they have collected so far for the needy kids of Eersteling Primary School. More donations are still needed.

She could not bear the sight of little children coming to school barefoot. So, a University of the Free State Biokinetics student went on a campaign to help find tackies for the children.

Touched by the sight of barefoot kids
Maralé Hoft encountered this situation when she and her colleagues went to the Eersteling Primary School to present sports-based physical activity programmes at the school as part of their curriculum programmes.

The school, which is located on the outskirts of Bloemfontein, about 10 kilometres from town in the Kellysview area, caters for children from Grade R (pre-school) to Grade 4, which are “obviously very young.”

“It became worse when we had to do some sports activities with them having no shoes on – I felt like I had to do something to help them,” she said.

More tackies still needed

Hoft says she has a target of about 100 children, but “we have so far only managed to get about 50 pairs of second-hand tackies.” 

“I would like to ask anyone who can contribute a pair of tackies for this age group to please do so, so that we could help the less privileged. Their shoe sizes range from size 10 (kids) to size 5 (regular),” she said.

Dr Monique de Milander, Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences’ Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, says: “All help will be most appreciated, as it would be ideal to have enough pairs to give every child a pair. We are worried that if we don’t have enough, we cannot give it to them, as it would not be fair if only a handful of children get a pair and the rest don’t.” 

Interested donors can contact Maralé Hoft at maralehoft@gmail.com

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New publication on groundwater remediation soon to be introduced
2017-05-05

Description: Prof Abdon Atangana groundwater remediation Tags: Prof Abdon Atangana groundwater remediation

A new book from Prof Abdon Atangana from
the UFS Institute for Groundwater Studies
proposes new techniques for groundwater
remediation, including guidelines on how chemical
companies can be positioned in any city to avoid
groundwater pollution.
Photo: Pixabay

A new publication, Fractional Operators with Constant and Variable Order with Application to Geo-Hydrology, will be published later this year, on 1 November 2017. The author, Prof Abdon Atangana, from the Institute of Groundwater Studies at the University of the Free State, said the book proposes new techniques for groundwater remediation, including guidelines on how chemical companies can be positioned in any city to avoid groundwater pollution.

Focus of the book
Prof Atangana said researchers and practitioners interested in groundwater modelling and remediation from applied mathematical and geo-hydrology backgrounds, will benefit from reading this book.

According to Elsevier, the book provides a physical review of fractional operators, fractional variable order operators, and uncertain derivatives to groundwater flow and environmental remediation. It presents a formal set of mathematical equations for the description of groundwater flow and pollution problems using the concept of non-integer order derivative. Both advantages and disadvantages of models with fractional operators are discussed.

“Researchers and practitioners
interested in groundwater modelling
and remediation from applied
mathematician and geo-hydrology
backgrounds, will benefit from
reading this book.”

About the author
Prof Atangana specialises in applied mathematics, groundwater modelling, fractional calculus and their applications, methods for partial differential equations, methods for ordinary differential equations, iterations methods, asymptotic methods, perturbations methods, and numerical method for fractional differential equations, uncertainties analysis. He has participated in 18 international conferences, organised six special sections and symposiums in international conference in Europe, Africa, Asia and USA, and has been invited as plenary speaker in eight international conferences. He also serves as editor on 20 international journal of mathematics and applied mathematics and editor-in-chief of two international journals of applied mathematics.

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